feeling
Syllables: feel·ing/ˈfiː.lɪŋ//ˈfi.lɪŋ/
feeling adjective: emotionally sensitive. Also the present participle and gerund of feel.
Adjective
feeling (comparative more feeling, superlative most feeling)
- Emotionally sensitive.
- Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling.
- Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
- He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
Noun
feeling (plural feelings)
- Sensation, particularly through the skin.
- The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling.
- Emotion; impression.
- The house gave me a feeling of dread.
- Part of the 'western arcade' (as it's known) is lined with delis, cafes and other shops, giving it the feeling of a bazaar.2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31
- Emotional state or well-being.
- You really hurt my feelings when you said that.
- Emotional attraction or desire.
- Many people still have feelings for their first love.
- You can kiss a hundred boys in bars
Shoot another shot, try to stop the feeling
You can say it's just the way you are
Make a new excuse, another stupid reason2024 April 5, Chappell Roan, Justin Tranter, Dan Nigro, “Good Luck, Babe!”performed by Chappell Roan
- Intuition.
- He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.
- I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.
- An opinion, an attitude.
- When you are tempted to speculate in cocoa, lie down until the feeling goes away.1972, George J. W. Goodman (Adam Smith), Supermoney, page 156
Also used as
feeling is also the present participle and gerund of feel.
feeling meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
feeling in Hindi
- sensation
- एहसास ehsās, हिस his
- emotion; impression
- जज़्बात jazbāt, भावना bhāvnā
- intuition
- ख़याल xayāl
feeling in Tamil
- உணர்வு, உணர்தல்
feeling in Marathi
- भावना, अनुभूती
feeling in Urdu
- sensation
- اِحْساس ihsās, حِس his
- emotion; impression
- اِحْساس ihsās, جَذْبَہ jazba, جَذْبات jazbāt
- intuition
- خَیال xayāl
More languagesFewer languages
- feeling in Bengali
- আবেগ abeg
- feeling in Telugu
- అనుభూతి anubhūti, భావం bhāvaṁ, అంతర్వాణి antarvāṇi
- feeling in Malayalam
- വികാരം, തോന്നൽ
- feeling in Kannada
- ಭಾವನೆ
- feeling in Punjabi
- ਭਾਵਨਾ
- feeling in Gujarati
- લાગણી, અનુભવે છે
- feeling in Nepali
- भावना, अनुभूति
- feeling in Pashto
- احساس ehsās
- feeling in Tagalog
- pakiramdam, pagtingin
- feeling in Arabic
- شُعُور šuʕūr, إِحْسَاس ʔiḥsās, عَاطِفَة ʕāṭifa
- feeling in Malay
- perasaan, hati
- feeling in Indonesian
- perasaan
- feeling in Thai
- ความรู้สึก kwaam-rúu-sʉ̀k, อารมณ์ aa-rom
- feeling in Vietnamese
- cảm giác, cảm xúc
- feeling in Myanmar
- ဝေဒနာ weda.na
Examples of feeling in a sentence
- I'm feeling peckish; I think it must be nearly dinner o'clock.
- When I got back to Hawaii, a feeling of aloha flooded me, and my anxiety vanished.
- Lying, hiding one's true feelings, and having affairs are typical symptoms of a doomed marriage.
Forms of feeling
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more feeling |
| superlative | most feeling |
| Noun | |
| plural | feelings |
Origin of feeling
From Middle English felynge, equivalent to feel + -ing.
Words formed from feeling
- feeling no pain
- bad feeling
- feelingful
- feeling in one's waters
- feelingless
- feelingly
- feelingness
- feelpinion
- fellow-feeling
- fellow feeling
- floating feeling
- gut feeling
- hard feelings
- hurt feelings
- ill feeling
- misfeeling
- mixed feelings
- nonfeeling
- no sense no feeling
- race feeling
- self-feeling
- sinking feeling
- that tired feeling
- underfeeling
- unfeeling
- where there's no sense there's no feeling
Phrases with feeling
- feeling up
- feeling bad
- feeling for
- feeling out
- feeling free
- feeling like
- feeling around
- not feeling it
- feeling oneself
- feeling the Bern
- feeling the burn
- feeling one's way
19 more phrasesFewer phrases
- feeling sorry for
- feeling the pinch
- feeling like death
- feeling one's legs
- feeling one's oats
- feeling like oneself
- feeling ten feet tall
- are you feeling better
- feeling in one's water
- feeling nine feet tall
- feeling someone's collar
- need one's bumps feeling
- want one's bumps feeling
- needs one's bumps feeling
- wants one's bumps feeling
- needed one's bumps feeling
- wanted one's bumps feeling
- needing one's bumps feeling
- wanting one's bumps feeling
Words that rhyme with feeling
- ceiling
- healing
- concealing
- dealing
- Eling
- glass ceiling
- peeling
- revealing
- shieling
- stealing
- wheeling
- appealing
8 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about feeling
- What does feeling mean?
- Feeling means emotionally sensitive.
- What is feeling in Hindi?
- Feeling in Hindi is एहसास (ehsās), हिस (his), जज़्बात (jazbāt). See Feeling meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is feeling?
- Feeling can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce feeling?
- Feeling is pronounced /ˈfiː.lɪŋ/ (UK).
Words near feeling in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: feeling (page history and authors); feeling (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); feeling (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); feeling (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); feeling (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); feeling (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); feeling (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); feeling (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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