feel
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: heading
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan
Old English fēlan
Middle English felen
English feel
From Middle English felen, from Old English fēlan, from Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan.
Cognate with Dutch voelen and German fühlen.
Inflected forms:
form: feels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: feeling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: felt
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: felt
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: feel
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: feel
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: felt
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: feel
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: feelest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: felt
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: feltst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: feltest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: feels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: feeleth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: felt
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: feel
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: felt
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: feel
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: felt
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: feel
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: feeling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: felt
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: feels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To use or experience the sense of touch.
pos: verb
tags: copulative
transitive
examples: You can feel a heartbeat if you put your fingers on your breast.
I felt cold and miserable all night.
I did feel a complete fool after stumbling on the same rock again.
gloss: To use or experience the sense of touch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I felt my way through the darkened room.
I felt my way cautiously through the dangerous business maneuver.
gloss: To use or experience the sense of touch.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To use or experience the sense of touch.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He felt (about) for the light switch in the dark.
gloss: To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I can feel the sadness in his poems.
Teach me to feel another's VVoe; / To hide the Fault I ſee; / That Mercy I to others ſhovv, / That Mercy ſhow to me.
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.
British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
gloss: To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I feel that we need to try harder.
We felt it (to be) our duty to call the police.
They promised me eternal happiness; And brought me garlands, Griffith, which I feel I am not worthy yet to wear.
When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.
gloss: To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
pos: verb
tags: copulative
intransitive
examples: He obviously feels strongly about it.
She felt even more upset when she heard the details.
I'm feeling really nervous about my finals.
Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
gloss: To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I feel for you and your plight.
[She] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron.
who feel for all mankind
gloss: To be or become aware of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To experience the consequences of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Feel my wrath!
gloss: To seem (through touch or otherwise).
pos: verb
tags: copulative
examples: It looks like wood, but it feels more like plastic.
It felt really strange to be back in my old kindergarten.
This is supposed to be a party, but it feels more like a funeral!
gloss: To understand.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
transitive
examples: I don't want you back here, ya feel me?
Shoot, errbody have the zipper jacket / And half of these thugs have the glove to match, ya feel me?
gloss: The sense of touch.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: It begins as a firm elastic swelling, which communicates to the feel the idea that a fluid is contained under a firm fascia […]
gloss: A perception experienced mainly or solely through the sense of touch.
pos: noun
examples: Bark has a rough feel.
And then something in the sound or the feel of the waters made him look down, and he perceived that the ebb had begun and the tide was flowing out to sea.
The unshanked snaffle bit is good for bending and getting a horse used to the feel of a bit.
gloss: A vague mental impression.
pos: noun
examples: You should get a feel for the area before moving in.
You can arrange camel trips into the desert but to really get a feel for this allow yourself a couple of extra days and be prepared for what at times can be an uncomfortable journey: Xuan Zang tells us that as he left Khotan he was ‘attacked by tornados which bring with them clouds of flying gravel’.
gloss: An act of fondling.
pos: noun
examples: She gave me a quick feel to show that she loves me.
gloss: A vague understanding.
pos: noun
examples: I'm getting a feel for what you mean.
gloss: An intuitive ability.
pos: noun
examples: She has a feel for music.
gloss: A feeling; an emotion.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: I know that feel.
Synonyms: feel
grope
handle
touch
Antonyms: misfeel
Related words: finger
thumb
Derived words: feelable
feel around
feel bad
feel-bad
feel eight feet tall
feeler
feel for
feel free
feel-good
feelgoodery
feel-goodery
feel-good factor
feel-goodism
feelie
feeling
feel in one's water
feel in one's waters
feel like
feel like death
feel like oneself
feelness
feel nine feet tall
feel no pain
feel oneself
feel one's legs
feel one's oats
feel one's way
feel out
feelsome
feel someone's collar
feel someone's pain
feel sorry for
feel ten feet tall
feelth
feel the Bern
feel the burn
feel the heat
feel the pinch
feel twelve feet tall
feel up
feel up to
feely
fellowfeel
forefeel
I feel you
misfeel
not feeling it
outfeel
overfeel
refeel
underfeel
unfeel
afterfeel
cop a feel
end-feel
gutfeel
gut feel
handfeel
look and feel
mouthfeel
skinfeel
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: ndiej
lang: Albanian
word: ni
lang: Arabic
word: شَعَرَ
roman: šaʕara
lang: Arabic
word: حَسَّ
roman: ḥassa
lang: Arabic
word: حَسّ
roman: ḥass
lang: Arabic
word: حَسّ
roman: ḥass
lang: Arabic
word: حَسّ
roman: ḥass
lang: Armenian
word: զգալ
roman: zgal
lang: Armenian
word: շոշափել
roman: šošapʻel
lang: Aromanian
word: simtu
lang: Aromanian
word: sãmtu
lang: Asturian
word: sentir
lang: Bashkir
word: һиҙеү
roman: hiźew
lang: Belarusian
word: адчува́ць
roman: adčuvácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: адчу́ць
roman: adčúcʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: опи́пвам
roman: opípvam
lang: Catalan
word: sentir
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎠᏒᏂᎭ
roman: asvniha
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 触摸
roman: chùmō
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 触
roman: chù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 摸
roman: mō
lang: Czech
word: cítit
lang: Old Czech
word: cútiti
lang: Dalmatian
word: senter
lang: Danish
word: føle
lang: Danish
word: mærke
lang: Dutch
word: voelen
lang: Esperanto
word: palpi
lang: Estonian
word: tundma
lang: Finnish
word: tuntea
lang: French
word: palper
lang: French
word: toucher
lang: North Frisian
word: feel
lang: Friulian
word: sintî
lang: Friulian
word: tastâ
lang: Galician
word: apalpar
lang: Galician
word: sentir
lang: Galician
word: tocar
lang: German
word: spüren
lang: German
word: ertasten
lang: Greek
word: αισθάνομαι
roman: aisthánomai
lang: Haitian Creole
word: santi
lang: Hungarian
word: érez
lang: Hungarian
word: tapint
lang: Icelandic
word: snerta
lang: Icelandic
word: finna
lang: Ido
word: sentar
lang: Irish
word: airigh
lang: Irish
word: mothaigh
lang: Old Irish
word: airigidir
lang: Italian
word: sentire
lang: Japanese
word: 感じる
roman: kanjiru
lang: Japanese
word: 触れる
roman: fureru
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: palpa
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: palpá
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: xinti
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: sintí
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: seh kirin
lang: Kyrgyz
word: сезүү
roman: sezüü
lang: Latgalian
word: just
lang: Latgalian
word: pajust
lang: Latin
word: temptō
lang: Latvian
word: taustīt
lang: Latvian
word: sataustīt
lang: Latvian
word: aptaustīt
lang: Latvian
word: just
lang: Livonian
word: maņņõ
lang: Livonian
word: mȯjjõ
lang: Macedonian
word: чувствува
roman: čuvstvuva
lang: Nanai
word: уйнгэ-
roman: ujŋe-
lang: Norwegian
word: føle
lang: Norwegian
word: kjenne
lang: Occitan
word: sentir
lang: Old Church Slavonic
word: чоути
roman: čuti
lang: Old English
word: ġefrēdan
lang: Polish
word: czuć
lang: Polish
word: poczuć
lang: Polish
word: odczuć
lang: Portuguese
word: apalpar
lang: Portuguese
word: tocar
lang: Portuguese
word: sentir
lang: Quechua
word: kullay
lang: Romanian
word: simți
lang: Romansh
word: sentir
lang: Romansh
word: santir
lang: Romansh
word: santeir
lang: Russian
word: чу́вствовать
roman: čúvstvovatʹ
lang: Russian
word: тро́гать
roman: trógatʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: fairich
lang: Slovak
word: cítiť
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: cuś
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: čuć
lang: Spanish
word: sentir
lang: Swedish
word: känna
lang: Tagalog
word: maramdaman
lang: Thai
word: สัมผัส
roman: sǎm-pàt
lang: Turkish
word: hissetmek
lang: Turkish
word: sezmek
lang: ǃXóõ
word: ta̰ã
lang: Finnish
word: tuntuma
lang: German
word: expressed verbally with anfühlen
lang: German
word: Oberflächenbeschaffenheit
lang: German
word: Haptik
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: berøring
lang: Portuguese
word: tato
lang: Spanish
word: tacto
lang: Swedish
word: yta
lang: Swedish
word: känsla