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feat

115 3.8
An impressive act that needs skill, courage, or great strength
  • noun
  • /fiːt/
: hazaña
  • Building the seven-story skyscraper in just one year was an impressive feat of engineering.
  • accomplish a feat
  • perform a feat
  • achieve a feat

And that's no easy feat at all.

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Examples

  • A fascinating feat of natural engineering.

  • OK, Would that be would that not be the greatest feat that we could ever pull off?

  • You know, it's a it's an amazing, it's an amazing feat of the human mind.

  • This aircraft is a remarkable feat of engineering, but it's also a little crazy.

  • How on earth did you manage such a feat?

  • How he achieved this feat so rapidly is a mystery.

  • Which one of them is famous for completing an extreme feat of strength?

  • The ladder was an impressive engineering feat, but time had taken its toll.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Now, this pipeline is a feat of human ingenuity.

  • So the Boston Dynamics robots are just impressive feats of engineering.

Synonyms

achievement
vsfeat
373 2.3

A success you reach after working hard

adds the idea of being impressive or requiring special skill or courage
effort
vsfeat
47 1.1

A notable achievement done with a lot of hard work

stresses an act that impresses because of skill, strength, or courage
exploit
vsfeat
34 6.1

A brave action that shows skill or courage

is more neutral and can be impressive without boldness
tour de force
vsfeat
  • Literature
8 8.0

An impressive achievement that shows great skill

is a more general notable act needing skill, courage, or strength
no small feat
vsfeat
6 5.6

A difficult and impressive achievement

is the general label for an impressive act needing skill or strength
masterstroke
vsfeat
3 7.3

A very clever action that succeeds and helps a lot

is broader, covering notable acts not always clever or singular
heroics
vsfeat
2 4.2

Actions that are brave in dangerous or very difficult situations

covers notable acts that may require skill as well as courage
1 3.9

An important success that shows great skill and effort

can apply to smaller impressive acts as well as large milestones
1 6.1

A difficult, impressive physical move done by a skilled performer

is more general and not limited to physical stunts

Antonyms

710 1.3

Not reaching what was planned or expected

Idioms

A difficult and impressive achievement

Compounds

A difficult, impressive physical move done by a skilled performer

How Impressive

exploit
34 6.1
feat
115 3.8
accomplishment
265 3.4
deed
134 3.4

Surface Forms

feat singular
feats plural

Etymology

Feat comes from an old word for a 'deed' or something 'done', and it shares the same root as fact and factory, which are about making or doing. So a feat is an impressive thing someone has done.