feel-good
adjective
1
: relating to or promoting an often specious sense of satisfaction or well-being
a feel-good reform program that makes no changes
2
: cheerfully sentimental
a feel-good movie
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The authors suggest that because exercise boosts feel-good hormones, such as dopamine, and reduces the stress hormone cortisol, smokers who work out feel less inclined to use nicotine as a brain reward.
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Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
Highway To Heaven taps into the current popularity of feel-good programming.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 6 May 2026
Buffalo is as feel-good a story as a top seed can ever be.
—Greg Cote
may 4, Miami Herald, 4 May 2026
Nick himself is a frothy, feel-good gentleman.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 1 May 2026
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Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
Highway To Heaven taps into the current popularity of feel-good programming.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 6 May 2026
Buffalo is as feel-good a story as a top seed can ever be.
—Greg Cote
may 4, Miami Herald, 4 May 2026
Nick himself is a frothy, feel-good gentleman.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 1 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for feel-good
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“Feel-good.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feel-good. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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