Definition of Feel like

1. Verb. Have an inclination for something or some activity. "They feel like moving "; "I feel like a cold beer now"

Generic synonyms: Desire, Want

Definition of Feel like

1. Verb. Have a desire for something, or to do something. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Feel Like

feedwater
feedyard
feedyards
feeing
feejee
feel
feel-bad
feel-good
feel-good factor
feel around
feel down
feel eight feet tall
feel for
feel free
feel in one's bones
feel like (current term)
feel like a million
feel like a million dollars
feel nine feet tall
feel one's oats
feel oneself
feel out
feel someone's collar
feel sorry for
feel ten feet tall
feel the heat
feel the pinch
feel twelve feet tall

Literary usage of Feel like

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Francis Child (1861)
"THE SLAVE WHO DARED TO feel like A MAN. Two years had passed since I entered Dr. Flint's family, and those years had brought much of the knowledge that ..."

2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"He did not probably, at the time, feel like a guide, and he consequently did not write like a guide. — ABBOTT, EDWIN A., 1891, The Early Life of Cardinal ..."

3. Transactions by Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings (Great Britain) (1905)
"Gentlemen: So much has been said of mosquitoes and the role they play in the transmission of disease, during the last few years, that I feel like ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1889)
"I don't feel like going or doing something," for I don't feel inclined to go or do ... You may feel like a thing or a person, but how can you feel like ..."

5. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"I feel like a King now. I assert my nationality with a quiet pugnacity that tells. No one treads on our coattails any longer, and I do not expect ever to ..."

6. The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic (1896)
"If it was n't for that man Gorringe of yours," he said dejectedly, " I think / should feel like going off—and learning a trade. ..."

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