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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"
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
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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