underlookとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (noun)
  • (General American) IPA: /ˈʌndɚlʊk/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈʌndəlʊk/
• (verb)
  • (General American) IPA: /ʌndɚˈlʊk/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ʌndəˈlʊk/

名詞

underlook (plural underlooks)

1. (rare) A concealed or oblique glance.
   • 1884, M. L. O'Byrne, Ill-won Peerages, Or, An Unhallowed Union, page 427:

     […] exultingly cried Lord Carhampton, stealing an underlook at Maurice O'Driscoll, whom he knew was wont to boast of his Milesian lineage; […]

   • 1973, Jack Kerouac, Visions of Cody, New Directions, →ISBN:

     […] rubbing his hands busily, rocking back and forth with one foot in front of the other, his head down but watching Watson with an underlook that was very arrogant, cocky, […]

動詞

underlook (third-person singular simple present underlooks, present participle underlooking, simple past and past participle underlooked) (transitive, rare)

1. To look up at from below; to inspect from underneath.
   • 1682, Edmund Hickeringill, The black Non-Conformist, discover'd, iii, 14:

     They would be Shepherds and feed his Sheep, and anoint them for the Scab, and underlook them.

   • 1873, A.D.T. Whitney, The Other Girls, page 242:

     Upon a rough table-ledge, they came to it at last; the place where they could lean in between the trees, and overlook and underlook the shining tumult [of the waterfall].

   • 1709, Edmund Hickeringill, “The Black Nonconformist”, in The Works of the Reverend Mr Edm. Hickeringill, page 36:

     […] they would be Shepherds and feed his Sheep, and anoint them for the Scab, and underlook them, but not worry them, nor destroy them […]

   • 2016, John Carter, Gullible's Travels: Tales by an International Towel Thief, pages 194-195:

     On this occasion at the Mamounia in Marrakesh, we occupied a room underlooking the garden — yes, 'underlooking', for we were just below ground level in a room with a wall that sloped outwards and up to a reinforced glass ceiling.

2. To fail to notice or give due importance to, especially because one is notionally looking too low (found in complement with overlook, as if it meant "to fail to notice because one is looking too high").
   • 2020, Vera Ferreira et al., “Stakeholders' Engagement on Nature-Based Solutions: A Systematic Literature Review”, in Sustainability, volume 12, number 620, page 19:

     Existing review research has focused on specific terms, underlooking important developments in the area.

   • 1950, Hearings before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Eighty-First Congress, Second Session, volume 2, page 2656:

     The CHAIRMAN. I am not overlooking anything. I am just making inquiry of you for information.
     Mr. THOMSON. I know you do not overlook anything.
     The CHAIRMAN. I am not overlooking or underlooking, but just listening to you and trying to get your viewpoint.

   • 2016, H. F. Heard, The Great Fog: And Other Weird Tales:

     "Do you remember Calkin's story about the quarrel he overheard—and underlooked?"

反意語

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