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Definition: Feel Like |
Feel LikeVerb1. Have an inclination for something or some activity; "I feel like staying in bed all day"; "I feel like a cold beer now". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Tips from 1870 | Usage: Feel like. "I feel like as if I should be sick." The word like is unnecessary. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Refreshment | Come to oneself; (revive); feel refreshed, feel like a giant refreshed. |
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Crosswords: Feel Like |
| Specialty definitions using "feel like": A.P.D or Po Po, automagically. (references) |
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Screenplays | But it helps me remember and I need to remember Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) Never knew I could feel like this (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) Ohhh, I feel like a dick (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.) Three weeks here, it'll feel like a year (Dirty Dancing; writing credit: Eleanor Bergstein) I feel like (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett) | |
Lyrics | Well i feel like makin (Feel Like Making Love; performing artist: Bad Company) You make feel like dancing (You Make Me Feel Like Dancing; performing artist: LEO SAYER) I mean I feel like (I Don't Wanna; performing artist: Aaliyah) I don’t feel like rocking (Don't Rock The Jukebox; performing artist: Alan Jackson) Right now you feel like you could never love again (I'll Never Break Your Heart; performing artist: Backstreet Boys) | |
Clever | I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe. (references; author: unknown) | |
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Song Titles | You Make Me Feel Like Dancing (performing artist: Leo Sayer) DO YOU FEEL LIKE WE DO (performing artist: Peter Frampton ) Feel Like Makin' Love (performing artist: Roberta Flack) Man! I Feel Like A Woman! (performing artist: Shania Twain) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | South Pole Station on a day without a horizon, near "white out" conditions. Flags mark path. One would literally feel like walking in a bowl of milk. There was no surface definition and one had to walk with bent knees because impossible to determine if surface was uneven. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Alistair Cooke | A professional; is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. |
Joey Adams | After a meal in a posh restaurant -- you feel like an after dinner mint -- the one in Denver. |
Tori Amos | The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Time seems to pass very slowly, so minutes feel like hours. (references) | |
Most patients are allowed to do as much as they feel like doing. (references) | ||
Prepare and freeze meals in advance for days when you do not feel like cooking. (references) | ||
Business | It is not uncustomary for Koreans to eat specialty foods, for instance, high protein foods or raw or boiled natural herbal juices based on oriental medicines, when they feel like a healthy supplement to their diets is needed. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Gennifer Flowers | There was a time I would have married him. I am very grateful at this point that I didn't. I have a wonderful husband that I feel like will be faithful to me. |
Gotham Chopra | Channel One is great. I mean Channel One, I think we practice a unique style of journalism, and for the journalist it's great because it makes you feel like Indiana Jones, because the stories are always centered around, you know, the reporter. |
Julianne Moore | I think I would second that. I mean I think it's very difficult though. I feel like there are people who write to sell papers, you know, or magazines. |
Phil McGraw | That's right. And so you have got to say I feel like damaged goods here. I feel like I don't have anything good to offer. I'm unclean and impure. That's because of what he did to me and I want my power back. I'm not going to live that way. |
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Expressions using "feel like": feel like a fish out of water ♦ feel like a giant refreshed ♦ feel like a wet rag ♦ feel like doing smth. ♦ feel like it ♦ not to feel like. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "feel like"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | إشتهى (desire, hunger, lust, wish), رغب (care, choose, crave, desire, give the willies, interest, want, will, wish), شعر ب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пощява ми се (crave). (various references) | |
Chinese | 吃不下 (be unable to eat any more, not feel like eating), 泄氣 (despair; feel like giving up). (various references) | |
Czech | cítit se jako. (various references) | |
Finnish | minua itkettää (I feel like crying), minua haukotuttaa (I feel like yawning), minua aivastuttaa (I feel like sneezing). (various references) | |
French | se sentir, désirer (feel like it), avoir envie. (various references) | |
German | total ausgelaugt sein (feel like a wet rag), sich hundeelend fühlen (to feel like nothing on earth), Lust haben (to feel like), aufgelegt (feel like doing). (various references) | |
Greek | γουστάρω (fancy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"תחשק (desire, get a yen, lust). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kedve van. (various references) | |
Indonesian | betah (feel at home, feel like home, stay). (various references) | |
Italian | andare bene (do, fit, like, match, suit). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 馬鹿'見る (to feel like an idiot, to make a fool of yourself), 乗る (to be found in, to be in harmony with, to be mentioned in, to be taken in, to board, to feel like doing, to get on, to get up on, to join, to mount, to ride in, to share in, to spread). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ばか'みる (to feel like an idiot, to make a fool of yourself), のる (to appear, to be found in, to be in harmony with, to be mentioned in, to be recorded, to be taken in, to board, to feel like doing, to get on, to get up on, to join, to mount, to ride in, to share in, to spread). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eelfay ikelay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ter vontade de, querer (desire, like, list, love, want, will, willing, wish). (various references) | |
Romanian | fi dispus sã (be prepared to). (various references) | |
Russian | хотеть (be ~ anxious to, choose, have the pleasure in, intend, like, want, want to, wish). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prohteti. (various references) | |
Spanish | tener ganas de (have a yen for), querer (cherish, desiderate, desire, like, live, love, please, want, will, wish, woollen). (various references) | |
Swedish | ha lust att göra ngt (feel inclined to do smth., feel like doing smth.). (various references) | |
Turkish | canı istemek (be in the mood to, fancy). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | бути схильним до. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-f-i-k-l-l" | |
-1 letter: eellike, elflike. | |
-3 letters: fille. | |
-4 letters: feel, fell, file, fill, flee, keef, keel, kief, kill, leek, leke, lief, life, like. | |
-5 letters: eel, eke, elf, elk, ell, fee, fie, fil, ilk, ill, kef, kif, lee, lei, lek, lie. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-f-i-k-l-l" | |
+4 letters: lifelikeness. | |
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