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feel like

verb feels like · feeling like · felt like

  1. 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.
  3. idiomatic To feel that something is likely to happen; to predict. I feel like it will rain all week.
  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.
  5. impersonal To give a perception of something; to appear or to seem. It felt like rain, but it barely drizzled.
  6. impersonal Denotes the apparent temperature.

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verb have a desire for something, or to do something

Españoltener ganas de, apetecer, antojársele, provocarle, tincarle
日本語ほしい hoshii
中文想要 xiǎngyào, 想 xiǎng, 有興趣 /有兴趣 yǒuxìngqù, 有興致 /有兴致 yǒuxìngzhì
Portuguêster vontade de, querer, estar a fim de
Françaisavoir envie de, être tenté
DeutschLust haben auf, Bock haben auf
Italianoavere voglia di
Ελληνικάμου έρχεται mou érchetai, βαριέμαι variémai
Русскийхоте́ться xotétʹsja, хоте́лось бы xotélosʹ by, хоте́ть xotétʹ, жела́ть želátʹ
עבריתבא ba

verb perceive oneself to resemble

Españolsentirse como
中文感覺自己像 /感觉自己像 gǎnjué zìjǐ xiàng
Portuguêssentir-se como
Françaisse sentir comme
Deutschsich fühlen wie

verb To feel as though

Portuguêsparecer, parece que (até)
Deutschdas Gefühl haben, dass

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@misc{feel_like_2026,
  title = {feel like},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/feel%20like},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}