Synonyms for at first sight
at first sight

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1. at first sightadverb

   Synonyms:
   at first glance

2. at first sightadverb

   Superficially, without a full inspection.

   It looks like a normal car at first sight. But when we open the hood, we discover something quite new.

   Synonyms:
   at first glance

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1. at first sight, at first glanceadverb

   immediately

   "it was love at first sight"

   Synonyms:
   at first glance

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1. Adam Smith:

   To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.

2. Chris Christie:

   When she got off that ferry, she was walking down the street and she was wrapped in a blanket and soaking wet -- anybody who had been in lower Manhattan, they were hosed off by firehoses. They were covered with dust, that's' the first sight of my wife after having left her that morning. I just grabbed her, hugged her, got her in the car and got her home.

3. Thomas Mann:

   This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

4. Heidi Cruz:

   It was love at first sight, of course you always think you know... a first thought is what is the person, what is your sense of them. How are they reacting to you ? And Ted just seemed to be interesting. He was a good-looking guy. He greeted me with a smile.

5. Arthur Schopenhauer:

   If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.