regard

1. 1

   A steady look, a gaze.countable

   • He bathed in the memory of her blondness, of her warm blue regard, and the sentiment permeated his sensibility with tenderness made the more rich because its object was someone long since dead.
2. 2

   One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference.countableuncountable

3. 3

   A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense.countableuncountable

   • This attempt will be made with every regard to the difficulty of the undertaking […]
   • We are spending a lot of money trying to put this mine in shape; we are anxious to comply with the wishes of your office in every regard […]
4. 4

   The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held.uncountable

   • He is held in great regard in Whitehall.

syn. consideration · onlook · respect

ant. neglect

1. 1

   To look at; to observe.transitive

   • She regarded us warily.
2. 2

   To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc.transitive

   • I always regarded tabloid journalism as a social evil.
   • He regards honesty as a duty, but was regarded himself as (being) rather dangerous by the police.
3. 3

   To take notice of, pay attention to.archaictransitive

   • If much you note him / You ſhall offend him, and extend his Paſſion, / Feed, and regard him not.
4. 4

   To face toward.transitive

   • Seated on a peninſula which regardeth the maine land ; ſtrong by nature, and fortified by Art : adorned heretofore with magnificent buildings ; and numbered amongſt the paradiſes of the earth, for temperate aire, and delightfull ſituation.
   • We pass’d by[…]that exceedingly beautifull scate of my Lord Pembroke, on yᵉ ascent of an hill, flank’d with wood, and reguarding the river ; and so at night to Cadenham, yᵉ mansion of Ed. Hungerford, Esq.
5. 5

   To have to do with, to concern.transitive

   • That argument does not regard the question.
6. 6

   To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect.obsoletetransitive

   • Ther was a Iudge in a certayne cite which feared not god nether regarded man.

1. 1

   Filter-avoidance spelling of retard.Interneteuphemistic