feel

1. (verb) seem with respect to the sensation given; of physical states, indicating as health, etc.: "My cold is gone--I feel fine today"; "She felt tired after the long hike"
Related Words: be

2. (verb) have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude; "She felt small and insignificant"; "You make me feel naked"; "I made the students feel different about themselves"
Related Words: believe, conceive, consider, think

3. (verb) examine by touch; "Feel this soft cloth!"; "The customer fingered the sweater"
Synonyms: finger

4. (verb) pass one's hands over the sexual organs of (slang); "He felt the girl in the movie theater"
Related Words: touch

5. (verb) undergo an emotional sensation; "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret"
Synonyms: experience
Related Words: anger, beam, boil, burn, cool off, die, entertain, feel pride, fly high, fume, glow, harbor, harbour, hold, joy, nurse, pride oneself, radiate, recapture, regret, rejoice, repent, rue, sadden, see red, seethe, shine, smolder, smoulder, suffer, sympathize, take pride

6. (verb) perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles; "He felt the wind"; "She felt an object brushing her arm"; "He felt his flesh crawl"; "She felt the heat when she got out of the car"
Synonyms: sense
Related Words: comprehend, perceive

7. (verb) undergo passive experience of:"We felt the effects of inflation"; "her fingers felt their way through the string quartet"; "she felt his contempt of her"
Related Words: experience, go through, undergo

8. (verb) grope or feel in search of something; "He felt for his wallet"
Related Words: grope for, look for, scrabble, search, seek

9. (verb) produce a certain impression; "It feels nice to be home again"
Related Words: appear, look, seem

10. (verb) find by testing or cautious exploration; "He felt his way around the dark room"
Related Words: find, regain

11. (verb) be felt or perceived in a certain way; "The ground feels shaky"; "The sheets feel soft"
Related Words: appear, crawl, look, seem

12. (noun) an intuitive awareness; "he has a feel for animals" or "it's easy when you get the feel of it"
Related Words: awareness, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness

13. (verb) come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds: "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining"
Synonyms: find
Related Words: conclude

14. (noun) manual-genital stimulation; "the girls hated it when he tried to sneak a feel"
Synonyms: feeling
Related Words: arousal, foreplay, stimulation

15. (verb) examine by palpation for medical purposes; as of body parts; "The nurse palpated the patient's stomach"; "The runner felt her pulse"
Synonyms: palpate
Related Words: touch

16. (noun) a property perceived by touch
Synonyms: tactile property
Related Words: property, texture, touch

17. (noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason"
Synonyms: feeling, flavor, look, smell, spirit, tone
Related Words: ambiance, ambience, atmosphere



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