feels

FEE-yuhlz/ˈfi.jəlz/

4 meanings of feels

1
verb
Third-person singular simple present of feel.
The new blanket feels soft against the skin.
She feels that the plan needs more work before the meeting.
Note
The -s form that goes with he, she and it: she feels, it feels. Because feel can work as a linking verb, it is often followed by an adjective rather than an adverb, as in "the blanket feels soft," not "softly." The same spelling is also a noun plural, as in the colloquial word for emotions, so the sentence around it decides which you are reading.
2
nouncolloquial
Feelings or emotions, especially a rush of tender sentiment.
The reunion scene hit me right in the feels.
He posted a long message about catching the feels for his old hometown.
Similaremotions
Note
It stands in for feelings in the same slots: Hisoka Takara's Child Support (2012) has "My feels were hurt." Its best-known home is the idiom hit me right in the feels, said of a moment that lands hard emotionally. Keep it to casual talk and writing; in anything careful, feelings or emotions is the safer word.
3
adjectivecolloquial
Emotional; heavily charged with feeling or tender sentiment.
The reunion montage was so feels that nobody spoke afterward.
Her farewell speech turned really feels toward the end.
Similaremotional
Note
An adjective that shares its form with the noun for emotions and compares with more and most rather than an ending: more feels, most feels. It usually follows a linking verb, often after so or really, standing where emotional would. It belongs to casual speech and writing; in formal contexts, emotional or moving does the same work.

Less common meaning

4
nounarchaic
Plural of feel.
The old craftsman read the feels of the timber with his bare hands before cutting.
Dr. Pope confirms my feels that the side is no better & the tenderness to the feel as great as when he was last here.
1809, King George III of England, The Later Correspondence of George III
Note
A count plural that treats each touch as a separate perception, the way sights counts what the eye takes in. Alexander Bryan Johnson's The Physiology of the Senses (1856) pairs the two directly: "sights and feels." King George III, in 1809, uses both "my feels" and "the feel" for touch itself. Modern English mostly keeps tactile feel uncountable, so the plural now reads as old-fashioned.

feels is a form of feel

feel, verb: To be in a particular emotional, mental, or bodily state, as in 'feel nervous', 'feel cold' or 'feel sick'. Full entry

Forms: feelfeels he/she/itfeeling -ing formfelt past tense, past participle
Spelling: feel → feels: add -s

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