English Explanatory Dictionary

felt

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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. A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
verb
  1. To make into felt or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
  2. To cover with, or as if with, felt.
  3. To cause (a player) to lose all their chips.
  4. To thoroughly defeat or humiliate (someone).
verb
  1. simple past and past participle of feel
adj
  1. That has been experienced or perceived.
name
  1. A surname.
noun
  1. Acronym of fast-evolving luminous transient, a type of supernova.

Pronunciation

/ˈfɛlt/ [ˈfɛlt] en-us-felt.ogg /ˈfæ̝lt/ [ˈfæ̝lt] /ˈfɛʊ̯t/ [ˈfɛʊ̯t]

Word forms

felt felts felte felting felted more felt most felt

Etymology

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.

Derived words

antifelt coated felt sheet felt grain feltless feltlike feltmaker feltmaking feltmonger feltness felt scale felt-tip pen feltwork feltwort felty glass felt needlefelt saturated felt refelt deepfelt heartfelt homefelt infelt long-felt underfelt unfelt
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