feel

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• IPA^(key): /fiːl/,

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• Rhymes: -iːl

From Middle English felen, from Old English fēlan, from Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan.^[1]

feel (third-person singular simple present feels, present participle feeling, simple past and past participle felt)

1. (heading) To use or experience the sense of touch.
   1. (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.

   2. (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.

   3. (intransitive) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
   4. (intransitive) To search by sense of touch.

      He felt for the light switch in the dark.

2. (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
   1. (transitive) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.

      I can feel the sadness in his poems.

      • 1738, [Alexander Pope], “Stanza X”, in The Universal Prayer. , London : [Thomas Ruddiman] for R Dodsley, , →OCLC, page 6:

        Teach me to feel another's VVoe; / To hide the Fault I ſee; / That Mercy I to others ſhovv, / That Mercy ſhow to me.

      • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

        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.

      • 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

        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.

   2. (transitive) To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.

      I feel that we need to try harder.

      • 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

        They promised me eternal happiness; And brought me garlands, Griffith, which I feel I am not worthy yet to wear.

      • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter XIX, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

        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.

   3. (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.

      • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

        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.

   4. (intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.

      I feel for you and your plight.

      • 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. , London: J Dodsley, , →OCLC:

        feels with the dignity of a Roman matron.

      • 1738, Alexander Pope, Epilogue to the Satires:

        who feel for all mankind

3. (transitive) To be or become aware of.
4. (transitive) To experience the consequences of.

   Feel my wrath!

5. (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!

7. (transitive, US, slang) To understand.

   I don't want you back here, ya feel me?

   • 2002, “Work It”, in Under Construction, performed by Missy Elliott:

     Shoot, errbody have the zipper jacket / And half of these thugs have the glove to match, ya feel me?

• When referring to the emotional state, most prescriptive grammarians prefer "I feel bad" to "I feel badly", but "I feel badly" is widely used this way in US English.
• In senses 2, 3, and 5, this is generally a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs

• → Kashubian: filowac (United States)

feel (plural feels)

1. (archaic) The sense of touch.
   • 1838, John Burns, The Principles of Surgery, volume 1, page 330:

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

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

   Bark has a rough feel.

   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     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.

   • 2010, Nathan Bowers, 4-H Guide to Training Horses, page 111:

     The unshanked snaffle bit is good for bending and getting a horse used to the feel of a bit.

3. A vague mental impression.

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

   • 2010, Paul Wilson, “Khotan (Hetian)”, in The Silk Roads: A Route & Planning Guide‎, 3rd edition (Travel), Trailblazer Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 379:

     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’.

4. An act of fondling.

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

5. A vague understanding.

   I'm getting a feel for what you mean.

6. An intuitive ability.

   She has a feel for music.

7. (chiefly US, slang) A feeling; an emotion.

   I know that feel.

• → Korean: 삘 (ppil)

See fele.

feel

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele

feel (not comparable)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele

feel (not comparable)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele

• elfe, fele, flee, leef

From English feel. Cognate with Mandarin fu.

feel (Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. emotional attraction or desire

   佢好似對你有feel喎。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   佢好似对你有feel㖞。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   keoi⁵ hou² ci⁵ deoi³ nei⁵ jau⁵ fiu¹ wo³.

   He seems to have some feelings for you.

2. vibe; atmosphere

feel (Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. to sense

   有冇人feel到有地震？ [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   jau⁵ mou⁵ jan⁴ fiu¹ dou^3-2 jau⁵ dei⁶ zan³?

   Could anyone feel the earthquake?

2. to experience or understand the mental state of others

   我feel到佢做嘢好畀心機。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   我feel到佢做嘢好畀心机。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   ngo⁵ fiu¹ dou^3-2 keoi⁵ zou⁶ je⁵ hou² bei² sam¹ gei¹.

   I could tell that he has devoted a lot of effort into his work.

feel (Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. Used after a noun to form an adjective denoting resemblance towards such noun; -like; sense of …
   • 2012 September 15, “陳展鵬谷上一線 孖鍾嘉欣談情”, in 東方日報‎:

     他接受訪問時表示由於劇中是佛山人，要做大陸feel一點 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     他接受访问时表示由于剧中是佛山人，要做大陆feel一点 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     taa¹ zip³ sau⁶ fong² man⁶ si⁴ biu² si⁶ jau⁴ jyu¹ kek⁶ zung¹ si⁶ fat⁶ saan¹ jan⁴, jiu³ zou⁶ daai⁶ luk⁶ fiu¹ jat¹ dim²

     When being interviewed, he said that he need to act a bit more mainland-like as the character is from Foshan.

   • 2023 March 13, “奧斯卡｜《奇異女俠》橫掃7大獎項　網民曾神預言：拎獎拎到手軟”, in 香港01‎:

     現在證明事實確是如此，但相關帖文曾被懷疑是宣傳帖，「呢個POST勁PR FEEL」、「完全唔覺有吹到咁神」。 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     现在证明事实确是如此，但相关帖文曾被怀疑是宣传帖，「呢个POST劲PR FEEL」、「完全唔觉有吹到咁神」。 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     jin⁶ zoi⁶ zing³ ming⁴ si⁶ sat⁶ kok³ si⁶ jyu⁴ ci², daan⁶ soeng¹ gwaan¹ tip³ man⁴ cang⁴ bei⁶ waai⁴ ji⁴ si⁶ syun¹ cyun⁴ tip^3-2, “ni¹ go³ post ging³ PR fiu¹”, “jyun⁴ cyun⁴ m⁴ gok³ jau⁵ ceoi¹ dou³ gam³ san⁴”.

     Now it has been proven to be the truth, but the post was suspected to be promotional material; “this post is very PR-like”, “not feeling the movie is godlike how it has been said to be at all”.

• 感 (gǎn)

• English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

feel

1. Alternative form of fele (“many”)

• fööl (Sylt)

From Old Frisian fēla.

feel

1. (Föhr-Amrum) to feel

Inherited from Latin fidēlem (“faithful”). Replaced by the borrowing fidel in modern Catalan.

feel

1. faithful

• feal, feau, feeil, fial, fiel
• fedeil, fetheil (early)

From Latin fidēlis.

feel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular feel)

1. faithful; loyal

• Middle French: feal, fieu, foial
  • French: féal
• → Early Scots: feal, feale, feall
  • Middle Scots: feall, fiall
    • Scots: feal, feele (obsolete)
    • → English: feal

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸɛːɬ/

feel (article quij, plural feeloj)

1. mallard

• Moser, Mary B., Marlett, Stephen A. (2010) Comcaac quih yaza quih hant ihiip hac: cmiique iitom - cocsar iitom - maricaana iitom [Seri-Spanish-English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Hermosillo: Plaza y Valdés Editores, →ISBN, page 297.