Feel like
verb
verb ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To have a desire for something, or to do something.
"I didn't feel like working yesterday, so I called in sick."
- 2 have an inclination for something or some activity wordnet
- 3 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."
- 4 To feel that something is likely to happen; to predict.
"I feel like it will rain all week."
- 5 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."
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- 6 To give a perception of something; to appear or to seem. impersonal
"It felt like rain, but it barely drizzled."
- 7 Denotes the apparent temperature. impersonal
Example
More examples"I didn't feel like working yesterday, so I called in sick."