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Another word for sight

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Noun

  1. An act of directing the eyes on an object

    See also:

    see

  2. The faculty of seeing

    See also:

    see

  3. That which is or can be seen

    See also:

    see

  4. An unsightly object

    See also:

    beautiful

  5. A great deal

    See also:

    big

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for sight

Noun

  1. The power of seeing

    See also:

    vision

  2. Something worth seeing; often plural

  3. *An unsightly person

    See also:

    tramp

    slob

Idioms:

    a sight for sore eyes

    2. at-first-sight

    3. by sight

    4. catch-sight-of

    5. lose-sight-of

    6. on-sight

    7. out of sight

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Sentence Examples

  • She must look a sight with red swollen eyes.

  • "I thought bees were attracted to flowers by sight and smell," I said.

  • He paused at the sight of Pierre.

  • No one was in sight when she reached the building, but the door was open.

  • Eureka stuck up her nose at such food, but the tiny piglets squealed delightedly at the sight of the crackers and ate them up in a jiffy.

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