Pronunciation
- IPA: /fiːl/, [fiːɫ]
feel (feels, present participle feeling; past and past participle felt)
- (heading) To use the sense of touch.
- (transitive, copulative) To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
- You can feel a heartbeat if you put your fingers on your breast.
- I felt cold and miserable all night.
- (transitive) To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
- I felt my way through the darkened room.
- I felt my way cautiously through the dangerous business maneuver.
- (intransitive) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
- (intransitive) To search by sense of touch.
- He felt for the light switch in the dark.
- (transitive, copulative) To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
- (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
- (transitive) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
- I can feel the sadness in his poems.
- 1738, Alexander Pope, The Universal Prayer:
- Teach me to feel another's woe.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314 ↗, page 0105 ↗:
- Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
- (transitive) To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
- I feel that we need to try harder.
- 1613, William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene ii]:
- They promised me eternal happiness; And brought me garlands, Griffith, which I feel I am not worthy yet to wear.
- (intransitive, copulative) To experience an emotion or other mental state.
- He obviously feels strongly about it.
- She felt even more upset when she heard the details.
- (intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
- I feel for you and your plight.
- [She] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron.
- 1738, Alexander Pope, Epilogue to the Satires
- who feel for all mankind
- (transitive) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
- (transitive) To be or become aware of.
- (transitive) To experience the consequences of.
- Feel my wrath!
- (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
- It looks like wood, but it feels more like plastic.
- This is supposed to be a party, but it feels more like a funeral!
- (transitive, US, slang) To understand.
- I don't want you back here, ya feel me?
- French: palper, toucher
- German: fühlen, spüren
- Italian: sentire
- Portuguese: apalpar, tocar, sentir
- Russian: чу́вствовать
- Spanish: sentir, tocar
- French: sentir
- German: fühlen, spüren
- Italian: sentire
- Portuguese: sentir (with noun), sentir-se (with adjective)
- Russian: чу́вствовать
- Spanish: sentir
- French: sentir, penser
- German: fühlen, denken, das Gefühl haben
- Portuguese: pensar/crer/achar que
- Russian: чу́вствовать
- Spanish: sentir, creer
- German: verstehen
- Russian: сочу́вствовать
- Spanish: sentirlo, compadecer
feel (plural feels)
- A quality of an object experienced by touch.
- Bark has a rough feel.
- A vague mental impression.
- You should get a feel of the area before moving in.
- An act of fondling.
- She gave me a quick feel to show that she loves me.
- A vague understanding.
- I'm getting a feel for what you mean.
- An intuitive ability.
- She has a feel for music.
- (chiefly, US, slang) Alternative form of feeling.
- I know that feel.
- German: expressed verbally with anfühlen; (formal, specialist) Oberflächenbeschaffenheit, Haptik
- Portuguese: tato
- Spanish: tacto
- Spanish: caricia
- French: sensibilité
- Spanish: idea
- Spanish: talento
- (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele
feel (not comparable)
- (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele
feel (not comparable)
- (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele
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