felt

Noun

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

Verb

1. (transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
2. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.
3. (transitive) To cause a player to lose all their chips.

Verb

simple past and past participle of feel

Adj

That has been experienced or perceived.

feel

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɛlt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: felt

Inherited from Old English: felt

Cognate with Dutch: vilt

Cognate with German: Filz

Cognate with Danish: filt

Cognate with French: feutre

Cognate with Latin: pilleus

Cognate with Church Slavic: плъсть

Cognate with Albanian: plis

In summary

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.

Synonyms

mat

sensed

full

blanket

felt up

matte up

matte

rug

mat up

perceptible

flannel

experienced

woollen cloth

perceived

matt-up

noticed

painful

plush

realised

realized

sensible

skin

trilby

understood

walk

🚶

wool

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

apprehensible

baize

camel’s hair

clear

deliberated

down

entwine

expected

experience

fieldfare

Translations

feutre

Filz

fieltro

feltro

vilt

feltro

filc

filzen

fötr

feltre

keçe

feutrine

pilśń

cappello di feltro

abgetastet

Sentences

Yet each felt his heart beat a bit faster .

I felt a chill down my spine .

He felt silly wearing a tie to the informal gathering .

The levanter was still getting stronger , and he felt its force on his face .

He felt uneasy at the man's presence .

The boy felt a pang in his heart , thinking about the merchant's daughter .