Synonyms of the word feeler


FEELERADVANCE - ANTENNA - APPROACH - BARBEL - OVERTURE - PROFFER - PROPOSITION - SENSITIVENESS - SENSITIVITY - SUGGESTION - TENTACLE

feeler

  • n. (literally) Someone or something that feels.
  • n. (anatomy) An antenna or appendage used for feeling, especially on an insect.
  • n. (figuratively) Something ventured to test another's feelings, opinion, or position.

advance

  • v. To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.
  • v. (obsolete) To raise; to elevate.
  • v. To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
  • v. To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
  • v. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
  • v. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
  • v. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.
  • v. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
  • v. (intransitive) To move forwards, to approach.
  • v. (obsolete) To extol; to laud.
  • n. A forward move; improvement or progression.
  • n. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
  • n. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
  • n. (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
  • adj. Completed before need or a milestone event.
  • adj. Preceding.
  • adj. Forward.

antenna

  • n. A feeler organ on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal.
  • n. An apparatus to receive or transmit radio waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.
  • n. The faculty of intuitive astuteness.

approach

  • v. (intransitive) To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate.
  • v. (transitive) To come near to in place, time, character, or value; to draw nearer to.
  • v. To make an attempt at (solving a problem or making a policy).
  • v. To speak to, as to make a request or ask a question.
  • v. (transitive, military) To take approaches to.
  • v. To bring near; to cause to draw near.
  • n. The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.
  • n. An access, or opportunity of drawing near.
  • n. (in the plural) Movements to gain favor; advances.
  • n. A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access.
  • n. A manner in which a problem is solved or policy is made.
  • n. (used only in the plural, fortification) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers…
  • n. (golf, tennis) An approach shot.
  • n. The way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport.
  • n. (bowling) The area before the lane, in which a player may stand or run up before bowling the ball.

barbel

  • n. A freshwater fish of the genus Barbus.
  • n. (biology) Whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish, including catfish, carp,…
  • n. A barb or pap under the tongues of horses and cattle.

overture

  • n. (obsolete) An opening; a recess or chamber.
  • n. (obsolete) Disclosure; discovery; revelation.
  • n. (often in plural) An approach or proposal made to initiate communication, establish a relationship etc.
  • n. (Scotland) A motion placed before a legislative body, such as the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
  • n. (music) A musical introduction to a piece of music.
  • v. (intransitive) To make overtures; to approach with a proposal.

proffer

  • n. An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender.
  • n. (law) Something that is offered into evidence; an offer to which one is willing to testify under oath.
  • n. Essay; attempt.
  • v. To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of.
  • v. To essay or attempt of one’s own accord; to undertake, or propose to undertake.

proposition

  • n. (uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
  • n. (countable) An idea or a plan offered.
  • n. (countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.
  • n. (countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on…
  • n. (grammar) a complete sentence.
  • n. (countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered…
  • n. (countable, mathematics) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
  • n. (countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a…
  • n. A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed.
  • n. (poetry) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To make a suggestion of sexual intercourse to (someone who one is not sexually…
  • v. (transitive, informal) To make an offer or suggestion to (someone).

sensitiveness

  • n. The ability to perceive sensation.
  • n. The ability to be aware of (and, usually, react with regard to) the feelings of others.

sensitivity

  • n. The quality of being sensitive.
  • n. The ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli.
  • n. (statistics) The proportion of individuals in a population that will be correctly identified in a binary…
  • n. (electronics) The degree of response of an instrument to a change in an input signal.
  • n. (photography) The degree of response of a film etc. to light of a specified wavelength.

suggestion

  • n. (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for).
  • n. (uncountable) The act of suggesting.
  • n. (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
  • n. (law, countable) information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence.

tentacle

  • n. An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.

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