Learn English – The word to know when you don’t know how to feel

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What is the word to use when you don’t know how to feel?

Such as instead of saying:

He didn't know how to feel

You could say

He felt ____.

Best Answer

The perfect word for this comes from today’s slang. In the current vernacular, you would say that he felt meh. It’s recent slang that per Urban Dictionary means

Indifference; to be used when one simply does not care.

For example, from an article on “Five Ways Not to Feel Meh” on Karousing.com:

It’s easy to feel meh. Not up. Not down. Just indifferent. Apethetic. No matter how great life is, we can all fall into the lull of feeling, well, nothing. We get caught up in work, patterns, habits, and fears. I’m here to tell you that there’s a danger to feeling meh. Just like that frog in the pot of water that sits there as the temperature is turned up slowly until it’s boiled to death. Nothing kills your spirit more than the gradual and continuous malaise of feeling meh.

Although some folks might use meh to mean blasé, others use it in a much more neutral fashion.

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