feel like

To want something or want to do something at that moment.

• I feel like a cup of tea.
• She did not feel like cooking last night.
• Do you feel like joining us for lunch?

How to use it: feel like something (I feel like some soup.); feel like doing something (Do you feel like going for a walk?)

Similar words: want, fancy

Common phrases: feel like something, feel like going out

To have the sense that you are a particular kind of person or thing.

• I feel like a child again.
• She felt like a winner after passing the test.
• Do you ever feel like an outsider here?

How to use it: feel like + noun (I felt like a stranger in my own town.)

Similar words: feel as if you are

Common phrases: feel like a fool, feel like an outsider

To experience a feeling as if something were true, whether or not it really is.

• I feel like I am dreaming.
• He felt like the room was spinning.
• Do you feel like you have been here before?

How to use it: feel like + clause (I felt like I was floating.)

Similar words: feel as though, feel as if

Common phrases: feel like something happened, feel like you belong

To give someone a particular impression through its appearance, qualities, or atmosphere.

• This room feels like home.
• The soft fabric felt like silk.
• With the warm sunshine, today feels like summer.

How to use it: something feels like something (This place feels like home.)

Similar words: seem like, resemble

Common phrases: feel like home, feel like silk

To have a strong impression that something will happen.

• I feel like it will rain soon.
• She felt like the team would win that evening.
• Do you feel like things will improve next month?

How to use it: feel like + clause about the future (I feel like we will win today.)

Similar words: expect, think, sense

Common phrases: feel like it'll rain, feel like we'll win

To seem a certain temperature to your body, even if the measured temperature is different.

• It feels like ten degrees outside.
• Yesterday felt like forty degrees because of the humidity.
• The forecast says it will feel like minus five tonight.

How to use it: feel like + temperature (It is twenty degrees, but it feels like fifteen.)

Common phrases: feel like thirty degrees, feel like freezing weather