Onlooker

Quick meaning: Onlooker is a noun meaning A spectator; someone looks on or watches, without becoming involved or participating.

Meaning

A spectator; someone looks on or watches, without becoming involved or participating.

Example Sentences

I wasn’t involved in the fight; I was only an onlooker.

Please allow me to adjust my pants So that I may dance the good time dance And put the onlookers and innocent bystanders into a trance

As a result, while the train was being shunted at Bombay, the buffers became locked, producing a situation most intriguing for the onlookers, but exasperating for the exalted passengers and the unhappy railway authorities.

When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform.

Word Forms

• onlookers

Synonyms for onlooker

Depending on context, synonyms include bystander, looker-on.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include looker-on, spectator, viewer, bystander, observer, on-looker.

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