OVERLOOKED Synonyms: 182 Similar and Opposite Words

overlooked

verb

Definition of overlooked

past tense of overlook

as in dominated

to look down on the fortress overlooks the city

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as in ignored

to fail to give proper attention to you've overlooked your chores again this week

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as in handled

to be in charge of you'll be asked to overlook larger projects in the future

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as in possessed

to cast a spell on the superstitious grandmother actually believed that the baby had been overlooked by a gypsy woman

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blessed

as in scanned

to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition) quickly overlooked the table of used books to see if there was anything of value

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as in disregarded

to dismiss as of little importance definitely not the kind of spouse to overlook even a single instance of marital infidelity

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as in managed

to look after and make decisions about the engineer hired to overlook the construction of the canal

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Recent Examples of overlooked The service Employees are beautiful, plentiful and delightful, with a high staff-to-resident ratio that keeps guests from feeling overlooked, although communication between departments could be better. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026 One reason why the shop floor has been overlooked is because the enterprise software industry has focused most heavily on developing digital transformation solutions for corporate functions that are very similar from one company to the next. — Naveen Poonian, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026 The fact that [overlooked] genres are being highlighted [in a more mainstream way], like Dennery segment, bouyon and konpa. — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2026 In Bethany Joy Lenz’s debut fiction novel, a painter spends her days honoring ordinary women the world overlooked — ones whose deaths were caused or enabled by a system that ignores them. — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026 There may be many more such discoveries waiting in populations that genomic research has overlooked. — Segun Fatumo, semafor.com, 19 Oct. 2026 But the family that OpenAI’s model identified had previously been overlooked. — Quanta Magazine, 19 Oct. 2026 Men with low testosterone after a head injury often report lack of energy, fatigue, low libido or brain fog, Lockette said, and sports concussions are frequently overlooked as a cause. — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2026 Inspired by documentary footage, the work draws attention to a quieter, often overlooked dimension of labor activism. — Sarah Belmont For Artnews, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2026

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Verb

Vucic dominated Serbian politics since becoming president of the Serbian Progressive Party, or SNS, in 2012, then becoming prime minister in 2014, then switching over to president in 2017.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2026
But supporters also warned that a Congress increasingly dominated by the far right and the agribusiness caucus could undermine those efforts to protect the forest and combat climate change.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of dominated

Verb

The second-year fifth-round pick started at the MIKE spot and handled green-dot responsibilities on his way to recording six tackles and being active throughout the night.

— Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Oct. 2026
Resolution is often a complex legal and financial negotiation, best handled by experienced advisors who understand creditor behavior.

— Nathan Mor, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of handled

Verb

Eugene Horsch and an unidentified woman were arrested days prior to the search, and authorities said Horsch possessed a pair of guns and a fake DEA badge.

— Frederick Sutton Sinclair, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
If the state possessed information that complicated the explanation for why those changes were necessary, homeowners have a legitimate interest in seeing it.

— Matthew T. Christ, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of possessed

Verb

Early Sunday morning, near the Place de la République, a part-time crossing guard named Joëlle, 71, scanned the wreckage along the Boulevard Voltaire from a bench, holding her shaggy shepherd mix, Pollux, on a leash.

— Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
Yet before the crows could be digitally designed, they were sculpted, and the character department built different parts of the crow — feathers, beaks, eyes and feet — to be scanned.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of scanned

Verb

At a news conference Monday, the country’s director of public security, Obeidallah Maaytah, said that law enforcement tracked down the individuals involved in that attack and, after a shootout, managed to arrest them and seize their weapons.

— Aoife Walsh, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
In contrast, participants who kept training just once or twice a week managed to hold onto a significant portion of their blood pressure reductions.

— Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of managed

Verb

Englert also supervised the stunning cinematography, and one marvels at how this often silly film looks so smart.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 Oct. 2026
At the time of his arrest, McQuay supervised about 15 officers assigned to a patrol unit in Fresno’s northeast policing district.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of supervised

Verb

The boy was a soccer player who was enchanted by the idea of camping in the woods; Charlotte was bright and cheery, sometimes applying glitter to her father’s mustache.

— Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
My daughter was enchanted by the Balinese rice-on-the-forehead ritual for good fortune that is a part of the arrival, and the front desk staff happily indulged her request to do it again—multiple times a day.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of enchanted

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