feel

English Online Dictionary. What means feel‎? What does feel mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiːl/, [fiːɫ]
• Rhymes: -iːl

Etymology 1

From Middle English felen, from Old English fēlan, from Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan.

Verb

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.

   2. (transitive) To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.

   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.

2. (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
   1. (transitive) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
   2. (transitive) To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
   3. (intransitive, copulative) To experience an emotion or other mental state.
   4. (intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
3. (transitive) To be or become aware of.
4. (transitive) To experience the consequences of.

5. (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).

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

Usage notes

• 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

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Kashubian: filowac (United States)

Translations

Noun

feel (plural feels)

1. (archaic) The sense of touch.
2. A perception experienced mainly or solely through the sense of touch.
3. A vague mental impression.
4. An act of fondling.

5. A vague understanding.

6. An intuitive ability.

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

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Korean: 삘 (ppil)

Translations

Etymology 2

See fele.

Pronoun

feel

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele

Adjective

feel (not comparable)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele

Adverb

feel (not comparable)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele

References

Anagrams

• elfe, fele, flee, leef

Chinese

Etymology

From English feel. Cognate with Mandarin fu.

Pronunciation

Noun

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. [Jyutping]

   He seems to have some feelings for you.

2. vibe; atmosphere

Verb

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? [Jyutping]

   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. [Jyutping]

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

Suffix

feel (Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. Used after a noun to form an adjective denoting resemblance towards such noun; -like; sense of …

   • 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 [Jyutping]

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

   • 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”. [Jyutping]

     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”.

Synonyms

• 感 (gǎn)

References

• English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

Middle English

Pronoun

feel

1. Alternative form of fele (“many”)

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• fööl (Sylt)

Etymology

From Old Frisian fēla.

Verb

feel

1. (Föhr-Amrum) to feel

Conjugation

Old Catalan

Etymology

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

Adjective

feel

1. faithful

Old French

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin fidēlis.

Adjective

feel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular feel)

1. faithful; loyal

Descendants

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

Seri

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸɛːɬ/

Noun

feel (article quij, plural feeloj)

1. mallard

References

• 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.