Synonyms for stare
stɛərstare

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.7 / 3 votes

1. stare

   To see is simply to become conscious of an object of vision; to look is to make a conscious and direct endeavor to see. To behold is to fix the sight and the mind with distinctness and consideration upon something that has come to be clearly before the eyes. We may look without seeing, as in pitch-darkness, and we may see without looking, as in case of a flash of lightning. To gaze is to look intently, long, and steadily upon an object. To glance is to look casually or momentarily. To stare is to look with a fixed intensity such as is the effect of surprise, alarm, or rudeness. To scan is to look at minutely, to note every visible feature. To inspect is to go below the surface, uncover, study item by item. View and survey are comprehensive, survey expressing the greater exactness of measurement or estimate. Watch brings in the element of time and often of wariness; we watch for a movement or change, a signal, the approach of an enemy, etc. Compare APPEAR.

   Synonyms:
   behold, contemplate, descry, discern, gaze, glance, inspect, look, regard, scan, see, survey, view, watch

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. stareverb

   a fixed look with eyes open wide

2. gaze, stareverb

   look at with fixed eyes

   "The students stared at the teacher with amazement"

   Synonyms:
   gaze

3. stareverb

   fixate one's eyes

   "The ancestor in the painting is staring down menacingly"

   Synonyms:
   gaze

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1. stareverb

   Synonyms:
   gaze, gloat, look intently, gaze earnestly

2. stareverb

   Synonyms:
   chickweed, star-wort

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1. Dean Koontz, Shadow Fires ( early book):

   When life hands us a beautiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.

2. Brett Kavanaugh:

   It is not as if it is just a run-of-the-mill case that was decided and never been reconsidered, but Casey specifically reconsidered it, applied the stare decisis factors and decided to reaffirm it, that makes Casey a precedent on precedent.

3. Lindsey Graham:

   What is the environmental policy of the Republican Party? When I ask that question, I get a blank stare, if I'm president of the United States, we're going to address climate change and CO2 emissions in a business-friendly way.

4. Jill Biden:

   For the loved ones left behind : I know all too well. I know what it's like to not be there when it happens. I know what it's like when you are there holding their hands, there's a look in their eye and they slip away, i know that when you stare at that empty chair around the kitchen table it brings it all back no matter how long ago it happened, as if it just happened that moment.

5. Ramana Pemmaraju:

   Believe me, men never stare at women, its they who steal our attention - Ramana Pemmaraju