Squint

Quick meaning: Squint is a verb meaning (intransitive) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.

Meaning

(intransitive) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To look or glance sideways.
2. (intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
3. (intransitive, Scotland) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
4. (transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
5. An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
6. The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
7. (intransitive, figurative) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.

Example Sentences

to squint an eye

The children squinted to frighten each other.

He looks handsome although he's got a slight squint.

Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism.

Word Forms

• squints
• squinting
• squinted

Synonyms for squint

Depending on context, synonyms include skelly, skew, askance, squinch, sidelong, askant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include asquint, squint-eyed, askance, strabismus, askant, sidelong.

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