Name: Describe Your Feelings in English | Feelings and Emotions Vocabulary
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One of the most common topics of small talk and conversation is how you feel about something happening.

It may be as simple as your response to the common question, Hey, how's it going?

to telling your co-worker how happy, sad, tired, or angry you are about something that happened yesterday.

Of course, you know words like happy, sad, angry, and tired.

But English speakers have a vast number of expressions, collocations, and idioms we use to talk about how we feel.

Doing so not only brings exciting variety to the conversation, but it also allows you to be precise about how you feel, choosing the exact word that allows you to express what you want.

I'm Anne-Marie with Speak Confident English.

This is exactly where you want to be every week to get the confidence you want for your life and work in English.

In this video today, you're going to learn 23 new ways to talk about how you feel, whether it's happy, sad, angry, tired, confused, or all the feels.

Throughout the lesson, you'll learn a variety of collocations, idioms, and synonyms so that you can describe even the smallest difference in the kind of happiness you feel.

For example, there's a difference between feeling happy because it's Friday, which is certainly a great feeling, and the kind of happiness you feel when you realize you were successful in a job interview in English and they just offered you the job.

Both of those result in happy feelings, but there is a little difference, isn't there?

There certainly is, and in today's lesson, you're going to learn exactly how to talk about those.

Let's start today by talking about the feels.

On social media or on TV shows, you may hear people talk about having all the feels or feeling all the feels.

It's not very common that we see that word feel used as a countable noun.

These two expressions are very informal, and what they mean is to feel a depth and often a variety of emotions.

For example, have you ever watched a TV commercial that made you cry and you had this weird mix of feelings, including hope for humanity?

Those are surprising feelings from a TV commercial.

And when you're telling a friend about it, you might say, that TV commercial made me feel all the feels, or I had all the feels when I watched that TV commercial.

It's definitely become a common expression to use, and now that you know it, you'll probably start seeing it quite a bit.

So now that we know about all the feels, let's talk about a few ways to describe happiness.

For this feeling, we're going to focus on four different synonyms that describe different levels or kinds of happiness we feel.

Now, this is a word I actually use a lot.

For example, when someone tells me that one of my lessons was useful to them, I feel extremely pleased.

Now, with the word happy, of course, we could emphasize that word by adding the word very, to be very happy.

Blissful means to be full of, to be full of happiness.

Similar to being blissfully happy is to be delighted.

This is also a great alternative to the word thrilled, because it also means to be extremely pleased about something.

You might be delighted that your team was successful in winning a new client.

You might be delighted that your son's sports team won the championship.

Or you're delighted because a co-worker brought you flowers for your birthday.

And the last one for talking about feeling happy is a really fun one.

We often combine this with the word excitement.

So imagine there's so much excitement and happiness that you are dizzy.

Someone who's lighthearted is so happy and they don't have any worries or concerns or stresses.

One image I love to think about with this idea of giddy with excitement is to imagine a wave of excitement.

Something that's overwhelming, but in a positive way.

Alright, now that you've got a variety of ways of talking about feeling happy, let's talk about feeling sad.

You know those days when you wake up and you just don't feel great?

Maybe something's not going well at work.

And you just feel this slight general sense of sadness or a little bit of depression.

It's nothing serious, but you just don't feel particularly great.

In that case, you might say that you feel blue.

If a friend calls you and says, hey, how are you doing?

You might say, I'm feeling kind of blue today.

Similar to that idiom, but perhaps slightly stronger, is to feel down or to feel down in the dumps.

Again, this means to be sad or depressed.

If a friend of yours recently lost a job, they might be feeling down.

Or maybe you see a friend and immediately you notice that something isn't right.

Our third way to talk about feeling slightly sad is to say, I'm not really feeling it.

What that means is you're just generally disinterested in something.

I actually used this one recently when my husband and I were watching a movie.

It was a movie that he thought was fantastic.

And at the end, he said, wasn't that fantastic?

In other words, I wasn't very interested in it.

Now, typically we might feel that sense of disinterest because we're tired or slightly depressed or upset about something.

And finally, our last example for how to talk about feeling sad is to have a heavy heart.

If you have a heavy heart, you are very sad, even miserable.

You may have a heavy heart because a friend received some terrible news or something awful happened at work.

If you're telling a coworker about something upsetting, you might say, oh, I have a really heavy heart today.

Before we move on to look at a variety of ways that we can use to talk about feeling angry, I want to pause here for a moment.

This particular month, I'm sharing several videos related to vocabulary because I want to help you grow your vocabulary and communicate precisely.

My goal, of course, is not only for you to learn new vocabulary, but to remember it to be able to use it.

So as you watch this lesson today, I have two pieces of advice.

Number one, after you hear my example sentences, take a moment to create your own example sentence using the same synonym, idiom or collocation.

Doing that not only personalizes the language, but it also gives you some of the repetition you need to help you remember something new.

The second thing that you can do is to create an effective daily habit for practicing vocabulary.

And I've got an easy way to help you do that.

Recently, I shared a lesson on how to develop an effective daily habit in English, and I included a free download to help you track your English vocabulary habits.

You can check out that lesson and get the free download on my website.

I'll be sure to leave a link for you just below this video.

And now let's talk about a few different ways to talk about feeling angry.

The first word on our list is kind of a fun word, even though it's a negative feeling.

And when someone is prickly, it means they are easily offended or they're just ready to take offense.

Maybe you know someone at work who's generally just prickly.

You never know when they're going to be offended and upset by something you say.

And of course, sometimes all of us are prickly.

Maybe you didn't get a lot of sleep last night, so today you're just kind of a little angry and frustrated.