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feels like

feels like is the third-person singular simple present indicative of feel like.

Meaning of 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.
  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
  5. (impersonal) To give a perception of something; to appear or to seem.
    • It felt like rain, but it barely drizzled.
  6. (impersonal) Denotes the apparent temperature.

Questions about feels like

What is feels like the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Feels like is the third-person singular simple present indicative of feel like.

Words near feels like in the dictionary

  1. feels before reals
  2. feels for
  3. feels free
  4. feels in one's water
  5. feels in one's waters
  6. feels like
  7. feels like death
  8. feels like oneself
  9. feels nine feet tall
  10. feels no pain
  11. feels one's legs

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