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Look on

To watch; to observe without participating.

📖 Definitions of "Look on"

verb
  1. 1

    To watch; to observe without participating.

    "My performance seems somehow always to get worse when there are other people looking on."

  2. 2

    To think of something in a particular way.

    "I look on him not as a boss, but as a friend."

  3. 3

    (usually negative) To approve or to be accepting of something.

    "We don't look kindly on people like you."

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