2 N‑PLURAL [oft with poss] Your feelings about something are the things that you think and feel about it, or your attitude towards it. □ [+ about ] She has strong feelings about the alleged growth in violence against female officers. □ [+ of ] I think that sums up the feelings of most discerning and intelligent Indians. □ He made no real secret of his feelings to his friends.
3 N‑PLURAL [usu poss N ] When you refer to someone's feelings , you are talking about the things that might embarrass, offend, or upset them. For example, if you hurt someone's feelings , you upset them by something that you say or do. □ He was afraid of hurting my feelings. □ He has no respect, no regard for anyone's feelings.
4 N‑UNCOUNT Feeling is a way of thinking and reacting to things which is emotional and not planned rather than logical and practical. □ He was prompted to a rare outburst of feeling. □ …a voice that trembles with feeling.
5 N‑UNCOUNT Feeling for someone is love, affection, sympathy, or concern for them. □ [+ for ] Thomas never lost his feeling for Harriet. □ It's incredible that Peter can behave with such stupid lack of feeling.
6 N‑COUNT If you have a feeling of hunger, tiredness, or other physical sensation, you experience it. □ I also had a strange feeling in my neck. □ [+ of ] He experienced feelings of claustrophobia from being in a small place.
7 N‑UNCOUNT Feeling in part of your body is the ability to experience the sense of touch in this part of the body. □ After the accident he had no feeling in his legs.
8 N‑COUNT [oft N that] If you have a feeling that something is the case or that something is going to happen, you think that is probably the case or that it is probably going to happen. □ I have a feeling that everything will come right for us one day. □ [+ about ] You have a feeling about people, and I just felt she was going to be good.
9 N‑UNCOUNT [oft N that] Feeling is used to refer to a general opinion that a group of people has about something. □ There is still some feeling in the art world that the market for such works may be declining. □ It seemed that anti-Fascist feeling was not being encouraged.
10 N‑SING If you have a feeling of being in a particular situation, you feel that you are in that situation. □ [+ of ] I had the terrible feeling of being left behind to bring up the baby while he had fun.
11 N‑SING If you have a feeling for something, you have an understanding of it or a natural ability to do it. □ Try to get a feeling for the people who live here. □ You seem to have a feeling for drawing.
12 N‑SING If something such as a place or book creates a particular kind of feeling , it creates a particular kind of atmosphere. □ [+ of ] That's what we tried to portray in the book, this feeling of opulence and grandeur.
13 → see also feel
14 PHRASE Bad feeling or ill feeling is bitterness or anger which exists between people, for example after they have had an argument. □ [+ between ] There's been some bad feeling between the two families.
15 PHRASE Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say ' no hard feelings ', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something. □ [+ between ] I don't want any hard feelings between our companies. □ He held out his large hand. 'No hard feelings, right?'
16 CONVENTION You say ' I know the feeling ' to show that you understand or feel sorry about a problem or difficult experience that someone is telling you about. [SPOKEN , FEELINGS ]
17 PHRASE If you have mixed feelings about something or someone, you feel uncertain about them because you can see both good and bad points about them. SYNONYMS feeling NOUN 2
opinion: I wasn't asking for your opinion, Dick.
view: You should also make your views known to your local MP.
attitude: His attitude made me angry.
belief: It is our belief that improvements in health care will lead to a stronger economy. PRAGMATICS feelings
In this dictionary, the label FEELINGS indicates that you use the word or expression to show how you feel about a situation, a person, or a thing. An example of a word with this label is unfortunately.
feel|ing|ly /fiː l I ŋli/ ADV [ADV after v] If someone says something feelingly , they say it in a way which shows that they have very strong feelings about what they are saying. □ 'It's what I want,' she said feelingly.
fee -paying ADJ [usu ADJ n] Fee-paying is used to talk about institutions or services which people have to pay to use, especially ones which are often provided free. □ …fee-paying schools. □ …fee-paying postgraduate students.
feet /fiː t/ Feet is the plural of foot .
feign /fe I n/ (feigns , feigning , feigned ) VERB If someone feigns a particular feeling, attitude, or physical condition, they try to make other people think that they have it or are experiencing it, although this is not true. [FORMAL ] □ [V n] One morning, I didn't want to go to school, and decided to feign illness. □ [V -ed] 'Giles phoned this morning,' Mirella said with feigned indifference. [Also V to-inf]
feint /fe I nt/ (feints , feinting , feinted ) VERB In sport or military conflict, if someone feints , they make a brief movement in a different direction from the one they intend to follow, as a way of confusing or deceiving their opponent. □ [V prep/adv] I feinted to the left, then to the right. □ [V ] They feinted and concentrated forces against the most fortified line of the enemy side.