look up to

English

Verb

look up to (third-person singular simple present looks up to, present participle looking up to, simple past and past participle looked up to)

1. (transitive) To show respect or admiration for (someone); to see (someone) as a role model.

   Synonyms: respect, idolize

   A boy should look up to his father.

Antonyms

• look down on

Related terms

• look up

Translations

To show respect for

• Czech: vzhlížet k(e)
• Finnish: ihailla (fi), kunnioittaa (fi)
• French: respecter (fr)
• Hungarian: felnéz
• Norwegian: se opp til (no)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: podziwiać (pl)
• Portuguese: admirar (pt), respeitar (pt)
• Spanish: respetar (es)
• Swedish: se upp till (sv)