LOOKERS-ON Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

lookers-on

noun

plural of looker-on

as in spectators

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Noun

In 2025, the Bruins recorded their worst home attendance at the Rose Bowl since the team moved there in 1982, averaging 37,282 spectators per game — far below the stadium’s capacity of 92,542.

— Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
The release also predicted a total of 80,000 spectators to attend the multi-day event, with additional programming planned for the Charlotte Convention Center.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of spectators

Noun

There aren’t any observers there to do the measurement or to collapse the wave function.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 17 Sep. 2026
While the result is not in doubt, external observers will be paying close attention to voter turnout and the margin of United Russia’s victory for any signs of public discontent after more than four-and-a-half years of war.

— Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of observers

Noun

The sleek, gold-colored coupé impressed with a futuristic design, but baffled onlookers with its cramped two-seat interior, lack of a charging port, and a dubious, far-too-good-to-be-true $30,000 price tag.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 10 Sep. 2026
In 1935, Rubin Stacy, a Black farmworker, was lynched as a horde of white onlookers stood by.

— Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of onlookers

Noun

But the crowd turned violent, attacking Black bystanders and out-of-state reporters, and the students were whisked away in police cars after only three and a half hours of class.

— Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Sep. 2026
Some earlier assassins expected it of themselves, canceling plots that would have killed bystanders.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of bystanders

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