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Feeled vs Felt - What's the difference?

feeled | felt |

As verbs the difference between feeled and felt

is that feeled is past tense of feel while felt is to make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.

As a noun felt is

a cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.

As an adjective felt is

that has been experienced or perceived.

feeled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (nonstandard) (feel)

  • feel

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) felen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (lb) To use the sense of touch.
  • # To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
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  • #(lb) To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
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  • #(lb) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
  • #(lb) To search by sense of touch.
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  • (lb) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
  • #(lb) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
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  • #*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • #*:Teach me to feel another's woe.
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  • #*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
  • #*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
  • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
  • #(lb) To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
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  • #*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • #*:Garlandswhich I feel / I am not worthy yet to wear.
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}
  • # To experience an emotion or other mental state.
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
  • #(lb) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
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  • #*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
  • #*:[She] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron.
  • #*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • #*:who feel for all mankind
  • (lb) To be or become aware of.
  • (lb) To experience the consequences of.
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  • (lb) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
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  • To understand.
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  • Usage notes
    * Most prescriptive grammarians prefer "I feel bad" to "I feel badly", but "I feel badly" is widely used in US English. * (term) is sometimes used after (feel) in its copulative sense where one might expect an adjective, ie, (bad). * Some users use (badly) when referring to an emotional state, and (bad) when referring to a more physical or medical state. * Adjectives to which "feel" is often applied as a copula: free, cold, cool, warm, hot, young, old, good, great, fine, happy, glad, satisfied, excited, bad, depressed, unhappy, sad, blue, sorry, smart, stupid, loved, appreciated, accepted, rejected, lonely, isolated, insulted, offended, slighted, cheated, shy, refreshed, tired, exhausted, calm, relaxed, angry, annoyed, frustrated, anxious, worried, jealous, proud, confident, safe, grateful, uncomfortable, unsafe, insecure, desperate, guilty, ashamed, disappointed, dirty, odd, strange, ill, sick.
    Derived terms
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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A quality of an object experienced by touch.
  • Bark has a rough feel .
  • A vague mental impression.
  • You should get a feel of the area before moving in.
  • An act of fondling.
  • She gave me a quick feel to show that she loves me.
  • A vague understanding
  • I'm getting a feel for what you mean.
  • An intuitive ability
  • She has a feel for music.
  • Alternative form of feeling
  • I know that feel.
    Derived terms
    * cop a feel * get a feel for * mouthfeel

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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) feele, fele, feole, from (etyl) fela, feala, . Related to (l).

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • Adjective

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  • felt

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) felt, from (etyl) ), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.

    Noun

    (wikipedia felt) (-)
  • A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
  • * Shakespeare, King Lear , act 4, scene 6:
  • It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt .
  • A hat made of felt.
  • (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
  • * 1707 , John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry :
  • To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
  • (Sir Matthew Hale)
  • To cover with, or as if with, felt.
  • to felt the cylinder of a steam engine

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (feel)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That has been experienced or perceived.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 257:
  • Conversions to Islam can therefore be a deeply felt aesthetic experience that rarely occurs in Christian accounts of conversion, which are generally the source rather than the result of a Christian experience of beauty.

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