leer

leer is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb, adjective, noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To learn. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To learn.
2. adjective. Empty; destitute; wanting
3. adjective. Empty of contents.
4. adjective. Destitute of a rider; and hence, led, not ridden; as, a leer horse.
5. adjective. Wanting sense or seriousness; trifling; trivolous; as, leer words.
6. noun. An oven in which glassware is annealed.
7. noun. The cheek.
8. noun. Complexion; aspect; appearance.
9. noun. A distorted expression of the face, or an indirect glance of the eye, conveying a sinister or immodest suggestion.
10. intransitive verb. To look with a leer; to look askance with a suggestive expression, as of hatred, contempt, lust, etc. ; to cast a sidelong lustful or malign look.
11. transitive verb. To entice with a leer, or leers; as, to leer a man to ruin.
12. noun. a suggestive or sneering look or grin
13. noun. a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls

    Synonyms: sneer

14. verb. look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression

    "The men leered at the young women on the beach"

Synonyms

sneer

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in leer:

lere, reel

Common word forms

leers, leered, leering, leerness

Words from these letters

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