looker-on

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

an audience
audienceThe audience went wild after every song she sang.
viewerThe show attracts millions of viewers every week.
listenerListeners tune in regularly for his cheery banter.
crowdThose New Yorkers can be a tough crowd to please.
houseIt's a full house tonight.
spectatorThe spectators cheered when the balloon went up.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Audiences and spectators
behind closed doorsidiom
bums on seatsidiom
bystander
captive audience
casual observer
consumption
evangelistically
fan park
fly on the wallidiom
flâneur
goer
looker-on
non-viewer
observer
operagoer
pep rally
spectator
supporter
viewership
watcher

onlooker | American Dictionary

onlooker
noun[ C ]
us/ˈɔnˌlʊk·ər, ˈɑn-/
someone who watches something happening but is not involved in it:
The building was demolished before a crowd of nearly 200 onlookers.

Examples of onlooker

onlooker
To the onlooker, nothing remotely related to a work of art or performance is there - no evident intrusion, no tangible presence, no action either.
The "problem" to which facial expression of pain is suggested as a solution is twofold, concerning benefits to the signaller and to the onlooker.
But they convey that sense of frustration, despair and sheer disbelief all onlookers felt at different times and for different reasons.
The demon was then instructed to overturn a basin of water some distance away, in order to prove to onlookers that it had indeed left.
When wise principles are perceived by onlookers specifically in connection with a person's lifetime, the effect on recipients can be striking.
Three of the onlookers reveal their teeth in mild amusement.
Several onlookers, boys and girls, bare their teeth in amusement.
To onlookers, the result is a relatively inward-looking system populated by elites.
It ensures that students are not just passive onlookers at products; they are actively engaged in the analytical processes being explored.
As these activities took place outside, the music attracted onlookers from the neighbourhood.
Naturally what we recorded more than anything else was the conversation of curious onlookers.
It is the product of a fascinated onlooker rather than a critical participant.
A bystander, perhaps a bookie, takes the helpless man's money, as other onlookers jeer.
As glances are held and exchanged, a third party traces back the gaze to its original onlooker.
The great mass of economic literature by 1760 was, to this peculiarly wellinformed onlooker, in a sense also a great mess.
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