feel like

Verb

feel like (third-person singular simple present feels like, present participle feeling like, simple past and past participle felt like)

1. (idiomatic) To have a desire for something, or to do something.
   • I didn't feel like working yesterday, so I called in sick.
2. (idiomatic) To perceive oneself to resemble (something); to have the sense of being (something).
   • “Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
3. (idiomatic) To feel that something is likely to happen; to predict.
   • I feel like it will rain all week.
   • She felt like the dog could start biting at any moment.
4. (idiomatic) To feel as though.
   • Those guinea feathers blew out in the sun ahead of us and lighted up, then got sucked back into the shade. That old wreck wasn’t going to fly, it wasn’t even going to roll on those flat tires. But I felt like I was flying through a cloud of guinea feathers.1987, Charles Hammer, chapter 3, in Wrong-Way Ragsdale, New York, N.Y.: Farrar / Straus / Giroux, →LCCN, page 17
   • I’m real scared . . . stiff all over . . . I feel like I am dying . . . I can’t move . . . I don’t want to die . . . help me.1992, Peter Levine, “The Body as Healer: A Revisioning of Trauma and Anxiety”, in Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, editor, Giving the Body Its Due (The Body in Culture, History, and Religion), Albany, N.Y....
5. (impersonal) To give a perception of something; to appear or to seem.
   • It felt like rain, but it barely drizzled.
   • It feels like Gerald is the likely suspect.
6. (impersonal) Denotes the apparent temperature.