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feeling

adjectivenounverbtop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • Canada//ˈfi.lɪŋ//
  • Australia//ˈfiː.lɪŋ//

Emotionally sensitive.

adjective

  1. 1

    Emotionally sensitive.

    Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling.

  2. 2

    Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.

    He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.

Etymology

From Middle English felynge, equivalent to feel + -ing.

noun

  1. 1

    Sensation, particularly through the skin.

    The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling.

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    Emotional state or well-being.

    You really hurt my feelings when you said that.

  4. 4

    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 reason

  5. 5

    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.

    Got on a lucky one / Came in eighteen to one / I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you

  6. 6

    An opinion, an attitude.

    When you are tempted to speculate in cocoa, lie down until the feeling goes away.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of feelpresent participle and gerund of feel

Forms

plural
feelings
comparative
more feeling
superlative
most feeling
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).