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outfeel

outfeel verb: to feel more accurately or more acutely than.

Verb

outfeel (third-person singular simple present outfeels, present participle outfeeling, simple past and past participle outfelt)

  1. (transitive) To feel more accurately or more acutely than.
    • Machines can outfeel a Helen Keller, out-taste and out-smell the best wine and perfume testers; they can discern pitch more unerringly than Stokowsky, and finer color hues than Rafael.1954, Rosicrucian Digest, page 309
    • Touchy-feely freakishness. "Navel watching and solipsism." And a clumsy one-upmanship in which each sympathiser attempts to prove that "I can outfeel any person in this movement." Whoever sobs longest and loudest to a Mozart quintet, it sometimes seems, gains the presidency of the Humanistic...1988, Jock Abra, Assaulting Parnassus: theoretical views of creativity, page 432

Forms of outfeel

third-person singular presentoutfeels
present participleoutfeeling
past participleoutfelt
pastoutfelt

Origin of outfeel

From out- + feel.

Questions about outfeel

What does outfeel mean?
Outfeel means to feel more accurately or more acutely than.
What part of speech is outfeel?
Outfeel is a verb.
What is the past tense of outfeel?
The past tense of outfeel is outfelt.

Words near outfeel in the dictionary

  1. outfeated
  2. outfeating
  3. outfeats
  4. outfeed
  5. outfeeds
  6. outfeel
  7. outfeeling
  8. outfeels
  9. outfell
  10. outfelt
  11. outfence

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