felt

CEFRA2

/ˈfɛlt/

verb · noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    Experienced an emotion or physical sensation.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    A felt-tip pen.

Examples

  • I've never felt so embarrassed in my life!

  • His classmates felt for him deeply.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈfɛʊ̯t/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meaning

  1. A hat made of felt.

noun

Extra meanings

  1. 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.

  2. A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.

More examples

In context

  • I can imagine how you felt.

  • to felt the cylinder of a steam engine

  • It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt.

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

She blank a sudden chill as the wind blew through the open window.

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Origin

verb

From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.