Usually means: Observing an event as bystander.
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  1. onlooking: Merriam-Webster
  2. onlooking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. onlooking: Wordnik
  4. onlooking: Wiktionary
  5. onlooking: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. onlooking: Dictionary.com
  7. onlooking: Collins English Dictionary
  8. onlooking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. onlooking: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (onlooking)

▸ adjective:  That is looking on; watching, observing.

Similar:
listening, scanned, audient, insighted, studious, interospective, seeing, omnivident, vistaed, introspective, more...

Opposite:
participating, engaging, involved, active

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Similar:
listening, scanned, audient, insighted, studious, interospective, seeing, omnivident, vistaed, introspective, more...

Opposite:
participating, engaging, involved, active



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