felt

Meaning

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 hat made of felt.
3. A felt-tip pen.
4. (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.

mat

sensed

full

blanket

felt up

matte up

mat up

woollen cloth

matt-up

interwine

smack of

want to

woolen fabric

felt paper

felt washer

rag felt

waulk

a felt hat

fulled

feltless ring

felt ring

affected by

thick felt

camel’s hair

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɛlt/

From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish 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.

Cognate with Dutch

vilt

Cognate with German

Filz

Cognate with French

feutre

New

feel

1. To use or experience the sense of touch.
2. To use or experience the sense of touch.
3. To use or experience the sense of touch.
4. To use or experience the sense of touch.
5. To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
6. To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
7. To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
8. To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
9. To be or become aware of.
10. To experience the consequences of.
11. To seem (through touch or otherwise).
12. (slang) To understand.