feel

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To use or experience the sense of touch.

   • 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.
2. 2

   To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.

   • 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.
3. 3

   To be or become aware of.

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   1. 4

      To experience the consequences of.

      • Feel my wrath!
   2. 5

      To seem (through touch or otherwise).

      • 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!
   3. 6

      To understand.

      • 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?
   4. 7

      The sense of touch.

      • It begins as a firm elastic swelling, which communicates to the feel the idea that a fluid is contained under a firm fascia […]
   5. 8

      A perception experienced mainly or solely through the sense of touch.

      • 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.
   6. 9

      A vague mental impression.

      • You should get a feel for the area before moving in.
   7. 10

      An act of fondling.

      • She gave me a quick feel to show that she loves me.
   8. 11

      A vague understanding.

      • I'm getting a feel for what you mean.
   9. 12

      An intuitive ability.

      • She has a feel for music.
   10. 13

       A feeling

       A feeling; an emotion.

       • I know that feel.
   11. 14

       Alternative form of fele.

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• synonymfeel
• synonymgrope
• synonymhandle
• synonymtouch
• antonymmisfeel
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• neighborperceive
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