feat

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/fiːt/

verb 2noun 1adj 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

amazing, astonishing, brilliant, extraordinary, incredible, remarkable | considerable, great | major

difficult, no mean

Learning to drive a manual car in heavy traffic is no mean feat for most beginners.

easy | impossible | acrobatic, intellectual

engineering

Building the Golden Gate Bridge was considered a remarkable engineering feat at the time.

VERB + FEAT

accomplish, achieve, bring off, perform, pull off

The young athlete accomplished an impressive feat by breaking the school's long-standing record.

be capable of

The young athlete was capable of athletic feats that amazed everyone at the competition.

repeat

emulate

Many young swimmers hope to emulate the remarkable feat of crossing the English Channel.

PREP

~ of

Building the bridge was an impressive feat of engineering that took three years to complete.

Definitions

noun

A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.

I consider scaling Mount Blanc the greatest physical feat of my life.

Raising six children who all went on to be doctors was a tough feat for us.

adj

Dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty.

[…] she set downe her period on the face of Alexis, thinking he was the fairest, and the featest swaine of all the rest.

Oh you high sp’rited Paragons of witte, That flye to fame beyond our earthly pitch, Whose sence is sound, whose words are feat and fitte, Able to make the coyest eare to itch: Shroud with your mighty wings that mount so well, These little loues, new crept from out the shell.

verb

To form; to fashion.

[…] most praised, most loved, A sample to the youngest, to the more mature A glass that feated them, and to the graver A child that guided dotards;

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Synonyms

noun — a notable achievement

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

I consider scaling Mount Blanc the greatest physical feat of my life.

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Raising six children who all went on to be doctors was a tough feat for us.

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Indeed, this discovery of meaning in symbols may be the most astounding intellectual feat that any human being ever performs—and most humans perform it before they are seven years old!

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[…] she set downe her period on the face of Alexis, thinking he was the fairest, and the featest swaine of all the rest.

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[…] never master had A page so kind, so duteous, diligent, So tender over his occasions, true, So feat, so nurse-like:

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, feat is marked as archaic, obsolete, informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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