felt

Meanings

Plural: felts

Noun

• a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers
• A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
• A hat made of felt.
• A felt-tip pen.
• A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.

Verb

• mat together and make felt-like
  • "felt the wool"
• cover with felt
  • "felt a cap"
• change texture so as to become matted and felt-like
  • "The fabric felted up after several washes"
• undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind
  • "She felt resentful"
  • "He felt regret"
• come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
• perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles
  • "He felt the wind"
  • "She felt an object brushing her arm"
  • "He felt his flesh crawl"
  • "She felt the heat when she got out of the car"
• be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state
  • "She felt tired after the long hike"
  • "She felt sad after her loss"
• have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude
  • "She felt small and insignificant"
• undergo passive experience of:
  • "We felt the effects of inflation"
  • "her fingers felt their way through the string quartet"
  • "she felt his contempt of her"
• be felt or perceived in a certain way
• grope or feel in search of something
  • "He felt for his wallet"
• examine by touch
• examine (a body part) by palpation
  • "The runner felt her pulse"
• find by testing or cautious exploration
  • "He felt his way around the dark room"
• produce a certain impression
• pass one's hands over the sexual organs of
  • "He felt the girl in the movie theater"
• To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
• To cover with, or as if with, felt.
• To cause a player to lose all their chips.
• simple past and past participle of feel

Adj

• That has been experienced or perceived.

Synonyms

experience, feel, felt up, find, finger, mat, mat up, matt-up, matte, matte up, palpate, sense

Anagrams of felt