feat
feat (fēt)
noun
an act or accomplishment showing unusual daring, skill, endurance, etc.; remarkable deed; exploit
Etymology: ME fet < Anglo-Fr < OFr fait < L factum, a deed < neut. pp. of facere: see do
feat (fēt)
adjective
- fitting
- neat or neatly dressed
- skillful
Etymology: ME fet < OFr fait, pp. of faire, to do < L facere: see do
Preposition: of
- endurance: Stamina: To fish all night is a bit of a feat of endurance.
- bravery: They performed countless feats of bravery at Ypres, most of which went unrecorded in the confusion.
- engineering: The bridge itself is an amazing feat of engineering.
- imagination: A remarkable feat of imagination keeps me breathing I look for you.
Converse of object
- accomplish: Dee is now the first woman in history to accomplish this feat.
- repeat: However, in trying to repeat this feat of strength Young was caught out on the rivers edge.
- emulate: This week, David Cameron's Conservatives did their best to emulate that feat.
- astound: This book enables the complete beginner to master and perform exactly the same astounding feats as Derren Brown himself.
- perform: Dogs can perform remarkable feats to reach a female in heat.
- achieve: The city achieves the feat of being cozy rather than crowded.
Adjective modifier
- remarkable: Dogs can perform remarkable feats to reach a female in heat.
- incredible: John has traveled the world amazing people with his incredible feats of head balancing, in the process setting numerous Guinness World Records.
- prodigious: With each passing day human intelligence enlarges the horizons of the possible and achieves prodigious feats.
- ascetic: It was not a place for seclusion, but the desire to undertake an ascetic feat arose and she accepted it.
- amazing: Clement also achieved front page local press coverage which reported on his amazing feat.
- astonishing: That the new Arsenal stadium exists at all is an astonishing feat.
Modifies a noun
- ures: By using Tcl, applications need not reimplement these feat ures.
Noun used with modifier
- death-defying: So is it another death-defying feat for the passion story, or an anti-Semitic betrayal?
- goalscoring: Most spectacular goalscoring feat of the weekend goes to Notts Forest's Nicky Southall.
- engineering: What will next year bring in terms of engineering feats?
Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male istoaccept a womannot merelyas feeling, not merelyas thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.
Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.
Browse dictionary entries near feat
- Feast of Tabernacles
- Feast of Lots
- feast day
- feast
- feasible
- feasibility
- feasance
- fearsome
- fearnought
- fearless
- feather
- feather bed
- feather palm
- feather star
- featherbed
- featherbedding
- featherbrain
- feathercut
- featheredge
- featherhead
