to not feel it
16
8.3
- phrasal verb
- Informal
:
no tener ganas (de)
- And if you constrain yourself in thinking this is how I should be feeling and I'm not feeling it, then you, you are limiting your options.
- even if you don't feel it
- still not feeling it
- just don't feel it
I, I'm not feeling it and the producer's not feeling it.
- I, I'm not feeling it and the producer's not feeling it.
- I was like not feeling it, but you know, still I need to see.
- It's just yeah, for the price, not feeling it for the price.
- I feel like people probably do, but I'm not feeling it.
- And then we're coming right back home because I'm just not feeling it.
- Because you're if you don't feel that joy, you're not feeling it right.
- If I don't feel it, you know, then it means that you're not feeling it.
Examples
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Yeah, I'm just not feeling it all of a sudden.
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It's just a lot of like I'm not feeling it basically.
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I was like not feeling it, but you know, still I need to see.
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It's just yeah, for the price, not feeling it for the price.
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I do not know, had high hopes for them and just not feeling it at the moment.
Blog text (9) -
And I'm just not feeling it, and I had to be honest.
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I tried, fake it till you make it and all that, but I don't feel it.
Blog text (18) -
I'm not feeling it.
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I'm not interested in going to the party; I'm just not feeling it today.
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Even though everyone else was excited, I couldn't help but not feel it for the project.
Synonyms
∞
3.0
To want to do or have something
Antonyms
How Interested
175
2.7
∞
1.0
- Informal
16
8.3
- Texting
49
1.0
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase literally negates 'feel it' — if someone 'feels it' they have a (positive) feeling or enthusiasm for something, so 'not feel it' means lacking that feeling or interest. This is a compositional, predictable use of 'not' + 'feel' + pronoun and parallels similar constructions in other languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer the meaning.
Etymology
The phrase not feel it comes from the simple idea of feel as a physical or emotional reaction inside you. Imagine you are at a party but the music does not move you and you are not feeling it, so you are 'not interested' or 'not enthusiastic'.