Synonyms of staring

staring

verb

present participle of stare

as in gazing

to look long and hard in wonder or surprise

her friends stared in disbelief upon seeing her walking arm in arm with her ex-husband

Synonyms & Similar Words

• gazing
• gawking
• peering
• glaring
• gaping
• goggling
• gawping
• watching
• blinking
• rubbernecking
• glowering
• gloating
• eyeing
• fixating
• ogling
• leering
• perusing
• studying
• considering
• observing
• regarding
• staring down
• poring (over)
• outfacing
• outstaring

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• glancing
• peeking
• peeping
• scanning
• dipping (into)
• glimpsing
• browsing
• winking (at)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of staring

His life trajectory changed when one client, a woman in her 50s, tired of staring at the stark white demarcation line every three weeks, begged him to take her gray. — Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 25 Sep. 2026

In the first, Cameron and David are staring at each other in front of a net of twinkling lights. — Michael Nied, InStyle, 24 Sep. 2026

But the field of radiology isn’t just staring at its shoes, waiting to see how technology upends the profession. — Katie Palmer, STAT, 24 Sep. 2026

But groups like the Hollywood labor guilds are celebrating the settlement news, as the staring contest between Ellison and the AGs caused paralysis in development and spending seemingly across the board at both companies. — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 21 Sep. 2026

While everyone else is staring at dot plots and hanging on Jensen Huang's every utterance, Illumina (ILMN) has been quietly doing what good charts do. — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026

But that’s not how the VAR system works, because the Premier League fears that every key decision would end with the ref staring at the pitchside monitor. — Graham Scott, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

The Gulf’s largest energy provider is now staring at the possibility of a two-front war. — Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026

Biggart photographed people coughing and wiping debris from their eyes, firefighters and police officers staring upward, papers floating over streets that had become nearly unrecognizable. — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026