Look and Purpose

Look

Look verb - To have in mind as a purpose or goal.

Usage example: they were looking to make a fast buck

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Purpose and look are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Purpose" instead a verb "Look".

Nearby Words: lookout, looked, looker, looking, lookup

Purpose verb - To have in mind as a purpose or goal.

Usage example: I've been purposing to fix that thing for some time now

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Look and purpose are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Look" instead a verb "Purpose".

good	good look	good purpose
exact	exact look	exact purpose
better	better look	better purpose
similar	similar look	similar purpose
Other adjectives: normal, usual, original, single, sinister, real, evil, little, dark, meaningful, general, different.

look little

purpose little

The first full trailer made it look like Elsa created the Endless Winter on purpose — all of her shots showed her using her powers aggressively, with an angry look on her face.

Source: Disney / Frozen
In How to Train Your Dragon, Hiccup's coat/vest looks long enough to be a longcoat, but it more serves the purpose of making him look smaller than look badass.

Source: Not-So-Badass Longcoat
In Heavy Rain one of Norman's endings is this He fails to help catch the origami killer and leaves drugs, ARI and the FBI behind to look for purpose and 'see what the real world's like'.

Source: Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life

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