English
feeling
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈfiːlɪŋ/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈfilɪŋ/
Adjective

feeling

  1. Emotionally sensitive.
    Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling.
  2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
    He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
Translations Noun

feeling (plural feelings)

  1. Sensation, particularly through the skin.
    The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling.
  2. Emotion; impression.
    The house gave me a feeling of dread.
  3. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
    You really hurt my feelings when you said that.
  4. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
    Many people still have feelings for their first love.
  5. Intuition.
    He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.
    I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.
    • 1987, The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
      Got on a lucky one
      Came in eighteen to one
      I've got a feeling
      This year's for me and you
  6. An opinion, an attitude.
Translations Translations Translations Translations Translations Verb
  1. present participle of feel#English|feel


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