Meaning & use
felt
Simple past tense and past participle of feel: experienced a physical sensation or emotion.
See it in a sentence
She felt a wave of relief when the test results came back normal.
He felt the cold wind cut through his thin jacket.
A note on using this word
As a noun, felt also refers to a soft fabric made by pressing fibers together, a completely different, unrelated word.
Words with a similar meaning
sensedexperienced
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Another way to use it
2. noun
A soft, dense fabric made by pressing and matting fibers together rather than weaving them.
She glued pieces of green felt onto the poster to look like grass.
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