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List of Feelings: 250+ Feeling Words with Useful Examples

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Here you will find over 250 words of feelings and emotions to improve your writing. This list is helpful for a strong beginning, more advanced vocabulary building will help you quickly improve your English.

List of Feelings

List of Feelings – Created by Englishstudyonline

List of Feelings Words

  • woe
  • weary
  • weariness
  • vigilance
  • tranquil
  • torment
  • stoical
  • stingy
  • spite
  • timidity
  • thrill
  • vexed
  • vengeful
  • venal
  • vanity
  • vain
  • trust
  • placid
  • pity
  • terror
  • tense
  • upset
  • unhappy
  • zest
  • zeal
  • wrathful
  • worried
  • wonder
  • unhappiness
  • uncomfortable
  • tenderness
  • sympathy
  • watchfulness
  • wary
  • vivacious
  • surprise
  • suffering
  • pessimism
  • pensive
  • spellbound
  • submission
  • subdued
  • stressed
  • kind
  • keen
  • jubilation
  • joy
  • sorry
  • sorrow
  • smug
  • shock
  • self-satisfied
  • scared
  • satisfaction
  • sardonic
  • sarcastic
  • shame
  • serenity
  • sadness
  • sad
  • roused
  • revulsion
  • self-assured
  • scorn
  • resigned
  • remorse
  • rapture
  • grouchy
  • grim
  • grief
  • greedy
  • rage
  • quirky
  • quiet
  • resentment
  • repentance
  • querulous
  • relieved
  • relief
  • rejection
  • queasy
  • quarrelsome
  • pushy
  • ornery
  • optimism
  • open
  • nirvana
  • nervous
  • neglected
  • naughty
  • mortification
  • modesty
  • misery
  • merry
  • mad
  • pleased
  • displeasure
  • dismay
  • dislike
  • peaceful
  • passive
  • passion
  • lust
  • proud
  • pride
  • panic
  • lulled
  • love
  • outrage
  • outgoing
  • longing
  • lonely
  • liking
  • like
  • lazy
  • kindly
  • kindhearted
  • joviality
  • jolly
  • jolliness
  • jittery
  • jealous
  • jaded
  • isolation
  • irritation
  • loneliness
  • loathing
  • introverted
  • interested
  • dissatisfied
  • discontent
  • disapproval
  • hysteria
  • hurt
  • humiliation
  • hostility
  • horror
  • hopeless
  • homesick
  • harried
  • insulted
  • insecurity
  • guilt
  • grumpy
  • glum
  • gloomy
  • fury
  • furious
  • frustration
  • exhausted
  • excited
  • happy
  • happiness
  • frightened
  • fright
  • fondness
  • flustered
  • flummoxed
  • ferocity
  • fearful
  • gloating
  • glad
  • fatalistic
  • fascinated
  • exasperation
  • euphoria
  • equanimity
  • enthusiasm
  • enthralled
  • distress
  • distraction
  • generous
  • fear
  • enraptured
  • enraged
  • enamored
  • emotional
  • emotion
  • embarrassment
  • envious
  • defeated
  • cruel
  • delighted
  • ecstasy
  • elation
  • easy-going
  • earnest
  • ecstatic
  • envy
  • dread
  • disturbed
  • disappointment
  • admiration
  • acceptance
  • enjoyment
  • enchanted
  • afraid
  • beleaguered
  • awe
  • attraction
  • affection
  • aggressive
  • aggravation
  • defiance
  • capricious
  • calm
  • crabby
  • agony
  • agitation
  • adoration
  • content
  • conceited
  • composed
  • exuberant
  • eager
  • cross
  • crazy
  • extroverted
  • compliant
  • disenchanted
  • anticipation
  • desire
  • depressed
  • disillusioned
  • disgust
  • contempt
  • concerned
  • dependence
  • complacent
  • anxiety
  • compassion
  • closeness
  • boredom
  • bewitched
  • attachment
  • apprehension
  • annoyance
  • anguish
  • calculating
  • crazed
  • astonishment
  • assured
  • assertive
  • angry
  • anger
  • blue
  • charmed
  • cautious
  • bitterness
  • amusement
  • caring
  • contentment
  • amazement
  • alienation
  • alarm
  • agreeable
  • bliss
  • cheerful

Feeling Words List with Example Sentences

weary

  • His face is weary beyond description.
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weariness

  • I detected a faint note of weariness in his voice.

vigilance

  • We must maintain keen vigilance at all time.

tranquil

  • A sad eyes, you become a peaceful tranquil.

torment

  • She lay awake all night in torment.

stoical

  • Local people were stoical about the damage caused by the hurricane.

stingy

  • Don’t be so stingy with the sugar!

spite

  • I like her in spite of her failings.

timidity

  • She doesn’t ridicule my timidity.

thrill

  • She gets an obvious thrill out of performing.

vexed

  • His conduct vexed her very much.

vengeful

  • He was stabbed to death by his vengeful wife.

venal

  • They are accused of being involved in venal practices.

vanity

  • His vanity was his downfall.

vain

  • She’s very vain about her good looks.

trust

  • He was appointed to a position of trust.

placid

  • She was a placid child who rarely cried.

pity

  • I saved her out of pity for her child.

terror

  • Her eyes were wild with terror.

tense

  • The situation grew increasingly tense.

upset

  • He was too upset to be rational.

unhappy

  • I hate to see you unhappy.

zest

  • We entered into the sport with zest.

zeal

  • He burned with a reforming zeal.

wrathful

  • My mother was wrathful with my lying.

worried

  • She gave me a worried look.

wonder

  • Sometimes I wonder if he is honest.

unhappiness

  • There was a lot of unhappiness in my adolescence.

uncomfortable

  • I feel uncomfortable in this chair.

tenderness

  • I like her tenderness.

sympathy

  • I have much sympathy for you.

watchfulness

  • The typical expression of the breed is one of watchfulness.

wary

  • He gave her a wary look.

vivacious

  • She gave a vivacious laugh.

surprise

  • He gave a low long whistle of surprise.

suffering

  • I hate to see animals suffering.

pessimism

  • He displayed his usual pessimism.

pensive

  • The woman in this painting has a pensive smile.

spellbound

  • The children listened to the story spellbound.

submission

  • His head was bowed in submission.

subdued

  • He seemed a bit subdued to me.

stressed

  • When I’m stressed I break out in a rash.

kind

  • He is very kind.

keen

  • Mrs. Miller is very keen on art.
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jubilation

  • The goal was greeted by jubilation from the home fans.

joy

  • She cried for joy.

sorry

  • I’m so sorry, I do apologize.

sorrow

  • sorrow for his death.

smug

  • He was so unbearably smug about winning.

shock

  • He is receiving treatment for shock.

self-satisfied

  • I can’t abide that man – he’s so self-satisfied.

scared

  • I was scared of the big dog.

satisfaction

  • He smiled in satisfaction when he won the race.

sardonic

  • She raised a sardonic brow.

sarcastic

  • His tone was lightly sarcastic.

shame

  • It is a shame to be so wasteful.

serenity

  • She escaped to the comparative serenity of the kitchen.

sadness

  • Her eyes expressed deep sadness.

sad

  • She was sad to see him go.

roused

  • I was roused by the sound of a bell.

revulsion

  • She looked at him with revulsion.

scorn

  • He looked at me with scorn.

resigned

  • He resigned himself entirely to his wife’s will.

remorse

  • He seemed to feel no remorse at all.

rapture

  • The children gazed at her in rapture.

grouchy

  • I had a headache and was incredibly grouchy.

grim

  • He set about the task with grim concentration.

grief

  • She was out of her mind with grief.

greedy

  • He is a greedy little boy.

rage

  • His face turned purple with rage.

quirky

  • I like his quirky sense of humour.

quiet

  • I gestured for him to keep quiet.

resentment

  • Don’t let your resentment build up.

repentance

  • They refused to show repentance for their crimes.

querulous

  • He was also petty, unreasonably querulous, and mean.

relieved

  • I’m relieved to hear that.

relief

  • He gave a little murmur of relief.

rejection

  • He has never suffered the torment of rejection.

queasy

  • I felt a little queasy on the ship.

quarrelsome

  • He had turned quarrelsome.

pushy

  • She was a confident and pushy young woman.

ornery

  • The senators were ornery and independent.

optimism

  • I had to smile at his optimism.

open

  • The canal is open to shipping.

nervous

  • I was too nervous to eat.

neglected

  • His tools lay neglected in the garden.

naughty

  • He’s a terribly naughty child.

mortification

  • He was wallowing in mortification.

modesty

  • He won praises for his modesty.

misery

  • The family lived in misery for several years.
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merry

  • What a merry lark.

mad

  • Don’t get mad, get even.

pleased

  • The mad man came at us with a knife.

displeasure

  • His words implied displeasure.

dismay

  • He looked at her in dismay.

dislike

  • dislike being away from my family.

peaceful

  • The hillsides looked very peaceful.

passive

  • He’s very passive in the relationship.

passion

  • She argued with great passion.

lust

  • He used her just to sate his lust.

proud

  • He is too proud to see his own mistake.

pride

  • I take pride in my work.

panic

  • In no case should you panic.

lulled

  • They lulled her into a false sense of security.

love

  • I think she’s in love with you.

outrage

  • I felt disbelief first of all, then outrage.

outgoing

  • I’m cheerful and outgoing.

longing

  • People are longing for peace.

lonely

  • I live all alone but I never feel lonely.

liking

  • She has a liking for fine wines.

like

  • I’d like to request a song.

lazy

  • I was feeling too lazy to go out.

kindly

  • He has kindly agreed to help.

kindhearted

  • I am a kindhearted slave driver.

joviality

  • There is no joviality to the Premiership panto season.

jolly

  • She’s a jolly good teacher.

jittery

  • I felt jittery before going on stage.

jealous

  • There is no reason to be jealous of me.

jaded

  • You look very jaded; you need a holiday.

isolation

  • He retired and lived in relative isolation.

irritation

  • He felt slight irritation at being kept waiting.

loneliness

  • He endured agonies of loneliness and misery.

loathing

  • He regarded drug dealers with loathing.

introverted

  • I wouldn’t call myself introverted.

interested

  • I’ve always been interested in music.

dissatisfied

  • She was dissatisfied with the job.

discontent

  • The audience buzzed with discontent.
Feeling Words List

Feeling Words List – Created by Englishstudyonline

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Wednesday 16th of March 2022

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Friday 1st of October 2021

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