FEEL OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does feel out mean? 

• FEEL OUT (verb)
  The verb FEEL OUT has 1 sense:

1. try to learn someone's opinions and intentions

  Familiarity information: FEEL OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEEL OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Try to learn someone's opinions and intentions

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

check out; feel out; sound out

Context example:

I have to sound out the new professor

Hypernyms (to "feel out" is one way to...):

query; question (pose a question)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

I am not comfortable enough to be fit for anybody; but your aunt seems to feel out of luck that such an article of Mansfield news should fall to my pen instead of hers.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)