Underlooked vs Overlooked - What's the difference?
underlooked | overlooked |
(underlook)
a suspicious or critical look; scowl, leer
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, passage= … 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, ...
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to be suspicious or mistrustful of
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to look under something
To miss because one is looking too low.
to look intently at or into, scrutinize, inspect
To not give due worth or respect to.
As verbs the difference between overlooked and underlooked
is that overlooked is past tense of overlook while underlooked is past tense of underlook.As an adjective overlooked
is missed, unnoticed.underlooked
English
Verb
(head)underlook
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)citation, genre= , publisher=Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=_Suspect._ To _underlook _; to imagine or infer that appearances misrepresent; hence one who _suspects_ is inclined to _look beneath_ the surface. }}