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footless

footless adjective: without feet.

Adjective

footless (comparative more footless, superlative most footless)

  1. Without feet.
    • The snake is a footless creature.
  2. (colloquial) Clumsy or inept.

Synonyms of footless

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of footless

Forms of footless

comparativemore footless
superlativemost footless

Origin of footless

From Middle English fotles, from Old English *fōtlēas (only found as fēþelēas (“footless”)), from Proto-Germanic *fōtalausaz (“footless”), equivalent to foot + -less. Cognate with Dutch voetloos, German fußlos, Swedish fotlös, Icelandic fótalaus (“footless, legless”).

Words formed from footless

Questions about footless

What does footless mean?
Footless means without feet.
What part of speech is footless?
Footless is an adjective.

Words near footless in the dictionary

  1. footlers
  2. footles
  3. footles about
  4. footles around
  5. footles away
  6. footless
  7. footlessly
  8. footlessness
  9. footlet
  10. footlets
  11. Footlick

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