barefoot
UK/ˈbɛəfʊt//ˈbɛɹfʊt/
barefoot adjective: wearing nothing on the feet.
Adjective
barefoot (not comparable)
- Wearing nothing on the feet.
- After taking off their shoes, socks and sandals at the doorway, the kids were barefoot.
- [L]ike Hedg-hogs vvhich / Lye tumbling in my bare-foote vvay, and mount / Their pricks at my foot-fall: ſometime am I / All vvound vvith Adders, vvho vvith clouen tongues / Doe hiſſe me into madneſſe: […]1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
- Of a vehicle on an icy road: not using snow chains.
- Transmitting without the use of an amplifier.
Adverb
barefoot (not comparable)
- Wearing nothing on the feet.
- She likes to go barefoot in the summertime.
- Ignoring the familiar discomfort, he padded barefoot across the thick white carpet toward the heavy curtains that lined the richly appointed bedroom’s wide transparisteel window.2007, Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin, Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do
- Transmitting without the use of an amplifier.
Proper noun capitalized: Barefoot
Barefoot (countable and uncountable, plural Barefoots)
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
- An unincorporated community in Nicholas County, Kentucky, United States.
barefoot meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Telugu and Malayalam
barefoot in Hindi
- wearing nothing on the feet
- नंगे पाँव naṅge pā̃v
barefoot in Urdu
- wearing nothing on the feet
- ننگے پیر nãṅge pair
barefoot in Telugu
- బేర్ ఫుట్
barefoot in Malayalam
- നഗ്നപാദൻ
More languagesFewer languages
- barefoot in Kannada
- ಬರಿಗಾಲು, ಬರುಗಾಲು, ಬಱಿಗಾಲು, ಬಱುಗಾಲು
- barefoot in Tagalog
- yapak
- barefoot in Arabic
- حَافٍ ḥāfin, حَافِي ḥāfī, حافي القدمين
- barefoot in Malay
- kaki ayam, berkaki ayam
- barefoot in Indonesian
- telanjang kaki
- barefoot in Persian
- پابرهنه pâberahne
- barefoot in Vietnamese
- chân đất, chân không, chân trần
Examples of barefoot in a sentence
- He must be a sucker for punishment to try to climb that mountain barefoot.
- I walked barefoot outside and ended up with three bindies in my foot.
- Don't try this at home, but now I'm going to walk barefoot over the hot coals.
Synonyms of barefoot
Forms of barefoot
| plural | Barefoots |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Barfoot |
| alternative form | Burfoot |
Origin of barefoot
From Middle English barefote, barfot, from Old English bærfōt (“barefoot”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀafōt, from Proto-Germanic *bazafōts (“barefoot”) equivalent to bare + foot. Cognate with Scots barefit (“barefoot”), Old Frisian berfōt ("barefoot"; modern Saterland Frisian boarfouts (“barefoot”, adverb)), Dutch barrevoets (“barefoot”, adverb), German barfuß (“barefoot”), Danish barfodet (“barefoot”), Swedish barfota (“barefoot”, adverb), Icelandic berfættur (“barefoot”), Yiddish באָרוועס (borves, “barefoot”).
A nickname, from barefoot.
Words formed from barefoot
Phrases with barefoot
Questions about barefoot
- What does barefoot mean?
- Barefoot means wearing nothing on the feet.
- What is barefoot in Hindi?
- Barefoot in Hindi is नंगे पाँव (naṅge pā̃v). See Barefoot meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is barefoot?
- Barefoot can be an adjective, an adverb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce barefoot?
- Barefoot is pronounced /ˈbɛɹfʊt/ (US).
Words near barefoot in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: barefoot (page history and authors); Barefoot (page history and authors); barefoot (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); barefoot (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); barefoot (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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