Feat

/fiːt/ · noun

Meaning

A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment..

Definitions by Sense

1. A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.
2. (archaic) Dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty.
3. (obsolete) To form; to fashion.
4. (transitive, informal) To feature.
5. (programming) Clipping of feature.

Example Sentences

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.

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!

Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.

[…] 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.

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

And look how well my garments sit upon me; Much feater than before:

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• feats
• feater
• featest
• feating
• feated

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