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overlooked

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

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Missed, unnoticed.

adjective

  1. 1

    Missed, unnoticed.

    Jealousy: It's all the feelings that come over you when you think you're being overlooked by others. It comes from inside, from your insecurities and fears—fear of loss, fear of betrayal, and fear of hurt.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English looked English overlooked From over- + looked.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of overlooksimple past and past participle of overlook

Forms

comparative
more overlooked
superlative
most overlooked
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).