feedback
/ˈfiːdˌbæk/
feedback noun: critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.
Noun
feedback (usually uncountable, plural feedbacks)
- Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.
- After you hand in your essays, I will give both grades and feedback.
- “Over the past month, the Department has held three separate meetings with the ACLU to receive feedback and engage the organization in the solutions,” the department said in a statement. “As a result of the meetings, the Department agrees that publishing FIO statistics going forward is necessary...2014 October 9, Marina Carver, “Study finds Boston police target African-Americans disproportionately”, in CNN
- Synonyms:
- estimation, assessment, critique, evaluation
- The part of an output signal that is looped back into the input to control or modify a system.
- The fact that similar cortical abnormalities can be experimentally induced in monkeys has allowed Michael Merzenich and his colleagues in San Francisco to explore an animal model of focal dystonia, and to demonstrate the abnormal feedback in the sensory loop and the motor misfirings that, once...2007, Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
- The high-pitched howling noise heard when there is a loop between a microphone and a speaker.
- A loud feedback screech blasted from a speaker on the wall. It was a hailing signal of some kind.2002, John Griesemer, No One Thinks of Greenland, Picador, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- audio feedback, Larsen effect, howlback, howlround
Verb
feedback (third-person singular simple present feedbacks, present participle feedbacking, simple past and past participle feedbacked)
- To generate the high-frequency sound by allowing a speaker to cause vibration of the sound generator of a musical instrument connected by an amplifier to the speaker.
- The show ended with a riot of feedbacking guitars.
- To provide informational feedback to.
- His employees feedbacked him a lot more than he wanted.
- To convey by means of specialized communications channel.
- Customers feedbacked their complaints and some praise.
feedback meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
feedback in Hindi
- critical assessment of process or activity
- प्रतिपुष्टि pratipuṣṭi, प्रतिक्रिया pratikriyā, प्रतिसाद pratisād
feedback in Tamil
- பின்னூட்டம், பின்னூட்டு பின்னறிக்கை பின்னாய்வு
feedback in Marathi
- feedback, review, comment — response or evaluation given on something
- अभिप्राय abhiprāy
feedback in Urdu
- critical assessment of process or activity
- باز رسی bāz-rasī
More languagesFewer languages
- feedback in Bengali
- প্রতিক্রিয়া, মতামত, গঠনমূলক পর্যালোচনা, ইলেকট্রনিক
- feedback in Telugu
- ఫీడ్బ్యాక్
- feedback in Malayalam
- ഫീഡ്ബാക്ക് phīḍbākkŭ, പ്രതികരണം pratikaraṇaṁ
- feedback in Kannada
- ಹಿನ್ನುಣಿಕೆ
- feedback in Punjabi
- ਫੀਡਬੈਕ, ਫ਼ੀਡਬੈਕ
- feedback in Odia
- ଫିଡବ୍ଯ଼ାକ୍, ଫିଡ୍ବ୍ଯ଼ାକ୍, ଫିଡବ୍ଯ଼ାକିଂ
- feedback in Nepali
- फीडब्याक
- feedback in Pashto
- غبرګاوی ğbargāwai
- feedback in Arabic
- تَلْقِيم اِسْتِرْجَاعِيّ talqīm istirjāʕiyy, تَقْيِيم taqyīm, إِرْتِجَاع ʔirtijāʕ
- feedback in Malay
- maklum balas, suap balik
- feedback in Indonesian
- umpan balik, balikan, masukan, masukan balik
- feedback in Persian
- بازخورد bâzxord
- feedback in Vietnamese
- sự phản hồi, sự hoàn ngược, sự nối tiếp
Examples of feedback in a sentence
- Customers didn’t like it: feedback was mostly negative.
- The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise.
- Companies should be open-eared to feedback from their customers.
Synonyms of feedback
- estimation
- assessment
- critique
- evaluation
- audio feedback
- Larsen effect
- howlback
- howlround
Forms of feedback
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | feedbacks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | feedbacks |
| present participle | feedbacking |
| past participle | feedbacked |
| past | feedbacked |
Origin of feedback
From feed + back.
Words formed from feedback
Phrases with feedback
Questions about feedback
- What does feedback mean?
- Feedback means critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.
- What is feedback in Hindi?
- Feedback in Hindi is प्रतिपुष्टि (pratipuṣṭi), प्रतिक्रिया (pratikriyā), प्रतिसाद (pratisād). See Feedback meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is feedback?
- Feedback can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce feedback?
- Feedback is pronounced /ˈfiːdˌbæk/.
- What is the plural of feedback?
- The plural of feedback is feedbacks.
Words near feedback in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: feedback (page history and authors); feedback (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); अभिप्राय (Marathi) (page history and authors); feedback (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); feedback (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); പ്രതികരണം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); feedback (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); feedback (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); feedback (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); feedback (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); غبرګاوی (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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