forelook

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/fɔɹˈlʊk//ˈfɔɹlʊk/

verb

To look beforehand, to preview.

OriginMiddle English vorloken →
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Meanings

verbforelook (third-person singular simple present forelooks, present participle forelooking, simple past and past participle forelooked)

present singular third person forelooks · participle present forelooking · participle past forelooked · past forelooked

  1. To look beforehand, to preview.
  2. To look forward.
nounforelook (plural forelooks)

plural forelooks

  1. A preview.

    [T]o do one's best on Sunday to interweave that thought with the active life of an active town, and to inspirit both and make both infinite by glimpses of the Eternal Glory, seemed such an exquisite forelook into one's life! . . . If this vision could only have lasted.

    1859 September, Edward Everett Hale, “My Double; and How He Undid Me”, in Atlantic Monthly
  2. Someone or something previewed.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
preview

Origin

  1. Middle Englishvorloken
  2. Englishforelook

From Middle English vorloken, forluken, equivalent to fore- + look.

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APA

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MLA

“forelook.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forelook. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “forelook,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forelook.

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