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When speaking about feelings, we always use adjectives, don’t we?
E.g. I feel good. X I feel well. (means that we feel healthy?)

If we didn’t have any hobbies, we would feel bored and unpleasant.
Is unpleasant right, or do we have to say unpleasantly instead? Why?
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Use an adjective- don't forget that 'well' can be an adjective too. If it were an adverb it wouldn't mean his health, but his ability to feel things, with his hands or whatever. In your second example, 'unpleasant' is the correct form, but I'd change the word and use unhappy/depressed, etc.
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Thanks.
I just asked because I had written "unpleasant" (not the adverb form with -ly) in an English test (exam) and my teacher had corrected it to "unpleasantly". It seemed quite weird to me and that's why I asked you. You see, it's better to believe you and learn from you than to believe Czech teachers...
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I feel unhappy = I am in a bad mood
I feel unhappily = I don't enjoy feeling (unlikely sentence)- maybe a customs officer might use it about having to search people
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I think I don’t understand it.
I read this sentences: I won’t be coming o work today. I’m not feeling/don’t feel very well.
You told me that if I say I feel well it means that my sense organs are good. But in this sentence, it evidently means that I’m ill or sick, doesn’t it?

Moreover, I didn’t really know that WELL is and adjective! I have always thought it was an adverb… Or is it both adjective and adverb?
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Default Re: to feel + adjective/adverb

By the way, which one is right?:
1)I don't think I understand it.
2)I think I don't understand it.
I guess the first one is right...then I wrote it incorrectly in my previous reply...
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'Well' can be both an adverb (he speaks well) and an adjective (feels well).

With 'understand', both are possible, but the first sounds more natural for the post.
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Well, but in the meaning "to feel well" it (well) can be both adjective and adverb, both with different meanings?
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Does it mean that if I say "I feel well" it might mean both I am not sick and have a good mood and that I can feel (for example a thing) without problems?
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It could, but the second meaning is very unlikely, unless you have been suffering from a disease that affects your ability to touch and feel but are better now.
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