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say it: feel
feel is a verb and noun meaning "undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind". It carries 17 recorded senses.
be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state
“My cold is gone--I feel fine today”
“She felt tired after the long hike”
“She felt sad after her loss”
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”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for feel come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.