feel for

Questions about feel for

What does feel for mean?

feel for means "share the suffering of".

What is another word for feel for?

Close synonyms include pity, compassionate, condole with, sympathize with. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is feel for a common word?

feel for is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for feel for come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.