Dictionary

feel like en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

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.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 91:
   • Kenny is beginning to feel dizzy and sags. She jams a hand under his arm to prop him up. He feels like he’s about to pass out. 2006, Don Otey, chapter 56, in Terror’s Mask, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 242:
5. (impersonal) To give a perception of something; to appear or to seem.
   • It feels like Gerald is the likely suspect.
   • It felt like rain, but it barely drizzled.
6. (impersonal) Denotes the apparent temperature.

Forms

Deriveds

feel like oneself · feel like death

Relateds

would like

Translations (67)

cmn 有興趣 /有兴趣 (have a desire for something, or to do something) · he בא (have a desire for something, or to do something) · ru хоте́ть (have a desire for something, or to do something) · sv känna sig som (perceive oneself to resemble) · pl poczuć się jak (perceive oneself to resemble) · gl petar (have a desire for something, or to do something) · eo emi (have a desire for something, or to do something) · sv känna att (To feel as though) · pt estar a fim de (have a desire for something, or to do something) · gl querer (have a desire for something, or to do something) · cmn 有興致 /有兴致 (have a desire for something, or to do something) · es provocarle (have a desire for something, or to do something) · pt ter vontade de (have a desire for something, or to do something) · pt sentir-se como (perceive oneself to resemble) · hu (úgy) érzi magát (perceive oneself to resemble) · et viitsima (have a desire for something, or to do something) · de das Gefühl haben, dass (To feel as though) · fi huvittaa (have a desire for something, or to do something) · it avere voglia di (have a desire for something, or to do something) · pl chcieć się (have a desire for something, or to do something) · nl zin hebben (have a desire for something, or to do something) · pl zachcieć się (have a desire for something, or to do something) · ga mothaigh go (To feel as though) · fr être tenté (have a desire for something, or to do something) · cmn 感覺自己像 /感觉自己像 (perceive oneself to resemble) · cmn 想 (have a desire for something, or to do something) · es apetecer (have a desire for something, or to do something) · hu van kedve (have a desire for something, or to do something) · ru хоте́ться (have a desire for something, or to do something) · nl het gevoel hebben dat (To feel as though) · es antojársele (have a desire for something, or to do something) · ga fonn a bheith ort chun (have a desire for something, or to do something) · az gəlmək (have a desire for something, or to do something) · fi tehdä mieli (have a desire for something, or to do something) · nl zich voelen als (perceive oneself to resemble) · de Bock haben auf (have a desire for something, or to do something) · is langa í (have a desire for something, or to do something) · fi viitsiä (have a desire for something, or to do something) · sv känna för (have a desire for something, or to do something) · bn ইচ্ছা হওয়া (have a desire for something, or to do something) · ru хоте́лось бы (have a desire for something, or to do something) · pl poczuć się, jakby (To feel as though) · pt querer (have a desire for something, or to do something) · nn ha lyst til (have a desire for something, or to do something) · is nenna (have a desire for something, or to do something) · ca abellir (have a desire for something, or to do something) · ru жела́ть (have a desire for something, or to do something) · ca venir de gust (have a desire for something, or to do something) · is finna að (To feel as though) · fi tuntua kuin (perceive oneself to resemble) · pl czuć się, jakby (To feel as though) · cmn 想要 (have a desire for something, or to do something) · de sich fühlen wie (perceive oneself to resemble) · ga braith ar nós (perceive oneself to resemble) · es tener ganas de (have a desire for something, or to do something) · da have lyst til (have a desire for something, or to do something) · ja ほしい hoshii (have a desire for something, or to do something) · de Lust haben auf (have a desire for something, or to do something) · fr avoir envie de (have a desire for something, or to do something) · lld avëi ueia de (have a desire for something, or to do something) · izh kehata (have a desire for something, or to do something) · es sentirse como (perceive oneself to resemble) · pt parecer, parece que (até) (To feel as though) · pl czuć się jak (perceive oneself to resemble) · es tincarle (have a desire for something, or to do something) · fr se sentir comme (perceive oneself to resemble) · hu úgy érzi, hogy (To feel as though)