OVERLOOKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overlooking mean? 

• OVERLOOKING (adjective)
  The adjective OVERLOOKING has 1 sense:

1. used of a height or viewpoint

  Familiarity information: OVERLOOKING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERLOOKING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used of a height or viewpoint

Synonyms:

commanding; dominating; overlooking

Context example:

the balcony overlooking the ballroom

Similar:

high ((literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like 'knee-high'))

 Context examples 

As soon as he was released from overlooking Uriah Heep, whom he kept in such charge as I never saw exceeded, he began to devote himself to Mr. Wickfield.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A buildup of planets in Pisces will coax you to be near water, so book a small hotel in a sunny climate overlooking powdery white sands, turquoise waters, and swaying palm trees.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The little tailor went bravely up, spoke to him, and said: Good day, comrade, so you are sitting there overlooking the wide-spread world!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

There was every reason to believe that she intended to remain for the season in her luxurious rooms overlooking the lake.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That was evidently the crime of crimes, the one offence there was no condoning nor overlooking.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The initial discovery of M. moyowamkia happened in 2004, when part of the skeleton was discovered high in a cliff wall overlooking the seasonally dry Mtuka riverbed, with excavations continuing through 2008.

(New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail offers clues to evolution of Africa's ecosystems, National Science Foundation)

Mr. Briggs, being Mr. Eyre's solicitor, wrote to us last August to inform us of our uncle's death, and to say that he had left his property to his brother the clergyman's orphan daughter, overlooking us, in consequence of a quarrel, never forgiven, between him and my father.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I had not even concluded for certain that it was the pearl, but it was evident to me that he was looking for something, since he carried the bust past the other houses in order to break it in the garden which had a lamp overlooking it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He found nothing to perplex or disappoint, much to admire and approve, for overlooking a few little affectations of speech and manner, she was as sprightly and graceful as ever, with the addition of that indescribable something in dress and bearing which we call elegance.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She was entreated to give them as much of her time as possible, invited for every day and all day long, or rather claimed as part of the family; and, in return, she naturally fell into all her wonted ways of attention and assistance, and on Charles's leaving them together, was listening to Mrs Musgrove's history of Louisa, and to Henrietta's of herself, giving opinions on business, and recommendations to shops; with intervals of every help which Mary required, from altering her ribbon to settling her accounts; from finding her keys, and assorting her trinkets, to trying to convince her that she was not ill-used by anybody; which Mary, well amused as she generally was, in her station at a window overlooking the entrance to the Pump Room, could not but have her moments of imagining.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)