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feel

verb

1 she encourages her customers to feel the fabrics:

touch, stroke, caress, fondle, finger, thumb, handle, manipulate, fiddle with, play with, toy with, maul;

put one's hand on, lay a finger on;

informal paw.

2 she felt a steady breeze on her back:

perceive, sense, detect, discern, make out, notice, observe, identify;

be sensible of, have a sensation of, be aware of, be conscious of.

3 the patient does not feel pain during the procedure:

experience, undergo, go through, bear, endure, suffer, be forced to contend with;

know, have.

4 he began to feel his way toward the door:

grope, fumble, scrabble, pick, poke, explore.

5 feel the temperature of the water:

test, try, try out, assess.

6 he feels that he should go to the meeting:

believe, think, consider it right, consider, fancy, be of the opinion, hold, maintain, judge, deem;

suspect, suppose, assume, presume, conclude, come to the conclusion that;

North American figure;

informal reckon.

▷antonyms doubt.

7 I feel that he is only biding his time:

sense, have a feeling, get the impression, feel in one's bones, have a hunch, have a funny feeling, just know, intuit.

8 the air feels damp:

seem, appear, strike one as.

□ feel for

the press persecuted John and I felt for him:

sympathize with, be sorry for, pity, feel pity for, feel sympathy for, feel compassion for, empathize with, identify with, be moved by, weep for, grieve for, sorrow for;

commiserate with, condole with;

archaic compassion.

□ feel like

I feel like an ice cream:

want, would like, wish for, desire, fancy, feel in need of, feel the need for, long for, crave, hanker after, pine for, thirst for, be desperate for, be bent on;

informal have a yen for, yen for, be dying for.

noun

1 in murky water the divers work by feel:

touch, sense of touch, tactile sense, tactility, feeling, feeling one's way, contact;

texture.

2 he liked the feel of the paper:

texture, surface, finish, grain, nap;

weight, thickness, consistency;

quality, character.

3 lighting can radically alter the feel of a room:

atmosphere, ambience, aura, mood, feeling, air, impression, climate, character, overtone, undertone, tenor, spirit, quality, flavor, color;

informal vibrations, vibes, vibe;

rare subcurrent.

4 he has a real feel for the language:

aptitude, knack, flair, bent, talent, gift, art, trick, faculty, ability, propensity, inclination;

head, mind, brain;

informal know-how.