Talk:feel down

RFD discussion: August 2020–January 2021
Now having made sure that my tired eyes had not deceived me (see this being brought up in the Tea Room here), I bring this entry to RfD.

This is the verbal feel plus the adjectival down. One can also "feel bad(ly)", "feel great", "feel sad", etc. Not deserving of an entry, for one.

Secondly, not only is the existence of this entry bizarre, just as bizarre is that this entry is a part of "Category:English phrasal verbs with particle (down)". That is utter nonsense. This is no such thing. Tharthan (talk) 20:45, 9 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete. Feel up is a phrasal verb. Feel down is not.  Vox Sciurorum (talk) 20:59, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
 * If you aren't happy with the category it can be removed - it was added manually. But I would keep this entry: wading through the different meanings of, as used here it's a predicative adjective. DonnanZ (talk) 08:52, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
 * What's the rationale for keeping? PUC – 11:54, 10 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete. I will feel sad, unhappy and depressed if this SOB SOP is kept. --Lambiam 11:52, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete, SOP. PUC – 11:54, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and per Vox; we are the only OneLook dictionary which has this. "I feel down", "it gets me down" (although, we have that at get down), "it brings me down" (although, we have that, too, at bring down), ... "I feel depressed", "I feel sad", etc ... - -sche (discuss) 00:19, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Feel, unlike get or bring, is open to complementation by all adjectives that denote states of feelings. Thus, there us nothing novel or unexpected about either of feel down/sad or feel up/happy, whereas get (one) up/happy and bring (one) up/happy do not convey meaning analogous to get (one) down or bring 9one) down. I think this may be due to get and bring often participating in light-verb constructions whereas feel does not. DCDuring (talk) 06:48, 6 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep - Dentonius (my politics | talk) 17:26, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - Yes, other feelings can be used with "feel", but that's only half of the question. Can "down" be used with this meaning with other verbs in the same the way that other feelings are? I note that "down" does not have this meaning with "to be": "I am happy" and "I am angry", but not "I am down".  "He became happy" and "He became angry", but not "He became down".  "Down" does not function in the same way as these "feeling" adjectives, so this cannot be considered simple sum of parts. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:52, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 06:13, 12 October 2020 (UTC)


 * RFD-deleted. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 23:13, 1 January 2021 (UTC)