Word Meanings - STARE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The starling.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STARE)

• Gaze
• Stare
• contemplate
• scan
• behold
• regard
• view
• glower
• gloat

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of STARE)

• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge

Related words: (words related to STARE)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• BEHOLDER
  One who beholds; a spectator.
• BEHOLDING
  Obliged; beholden. I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father. Robynson So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children. Fuller.
• CONTEMNER
  One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.
• BEHOLDINGNESS
  , The state of being obliged or beholden. Sir P. Sidney.
• STARER
  One who stares, or gazes.
• OVERLOOK
  1. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. with burning eye did
• REGARDLESS
  1. Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity. Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat. Milton. 2. Not regarded; slighted. Spectator. Syn. -- Heedless; negligent; careless; indifferent; unconcerned;
• DISREGARD
  Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore.
• DESPISEMENT
  A despising. Holland.
• BEHOLD
  To have in sight; to see clearly; to look at; to regard with the eyes. When he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. Num. xxi. 9. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John. i. 29. Syn. -- To scan; gaze; regard; descry;
• MISESTIMATE
  To estimate erroneously. J. S. Mill.
• DISLIKENESS
  Unlikeness. Locke.
• CONTEMN
  To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn. Thy pompous delicacies I contemn. Milton. One who contemned divine and human laws. Dryden. Syn. -- To despise; scorn; disdain; spurn;
• REGARD
  1. To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon. Your niece regards me with an eye of favor. Shak. 2. Hence, to look or front toward; to face. It is peninsula which regardeth the mainland. Sandys. That exceedingly beatiful seat,
• DESPISE
  To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prov. i. 7. Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who
• DESPISER
  One who despises; a contemner; a scorner.
• LOATHER
  One who loathes.
• SEPIOSTARE
  The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.
• DISLIKE
  1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.
• STARE
  The starling.