Synonyms for feel
- verb
- noun
Definitions
- v. 1
To use or experience the sense of touch. To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
I felt my way through the darkened room.
- n. 1
A perception experienced mainly or solely through the sense of touch.
Related words
- Word family
- feelable feeler feeling
- Phrases
- feel up feel around feel sorry for feel for feel free feel out feel someone's pain feel like
- Is a kind of
- perceive
Forms
- Plural
- feels → looks, sounds, smells, spirits…
Example sentences
- find Everywhere you go, you will find the same scenery.
- believe They say he is guilty, but I believe the contrary.
- sense Who, that has common sense, would do such a thing?
- taste My wife's taste in clothes is different from mine.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| feel | rising | |
| find | rising | |
| believe | steady | |
| sense | rising | |
| taste | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- have1, take1, find1, look1, tone1
- 5 letters
- sense1, sound1, touch1, taste1, smell1, grope1
- 6 letters
- handle2, spirit2, suffer2, finger2, flavor2
- 7 letters
- believe2, flavour, palpate, grabble
- 8 letters
- perceive2
- 10 letters
- experience4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (handle2 = 2 syllables).