feel like
verb1
Idiomatic To have a desire for something, or to do something.
- I didn't feel like working yesterday, so I called in sick.
2
Idiomatic 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.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
3
Idiomatic To feel that something is likely to happen; to predict.
- I feel like it will rain all week.
- She felt like the dog could start biting at any moment.
4
Idiomatic 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.1987, Charles Hammer, chapter 3, in Wrong-Way Ragsdale, New York, N.Y.: Farrar / Straus / Giroux, →LCCN, page 17:
- I’m real scared . . . stiff all over . . . I feel like I am dying . . . I can’t move . . . I don’t want to die . . . help me.1992, Peter Levine, “The Body as Healer: A Revisioning of Trauma and Anxiety”, in Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, editor, Giving the Body Its Due (The Body in Culture, History, and Religion), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 91:
1 more example
- Kenny is beginning to feel dizzy and sags. She jams a hand under his arm to prop him up. He feels like he’s about to pass out.2006, Don Otey, chapter 56, in Terror’s Mask, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 242:
5
To give a perception of something; to appear or to seem.
- It felt like rain, but it barely drizzled.
- It feels like Gerald is the likely suspect.
6
Climatology, Meteorology, Natural sciences Denotes the apparent temperature.
- Derived terms
- feel like death, feel like oneself
- Related terms
- would like