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shoeless

shoeless adjective: without shoes; not wearing shoes.

shoeless: without shoes; not wearing shoes
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Adjective

shoeless (not comparable)

  1. Without shoes; not wearing shoes
    • He ran shoeless from the burning house.
    • The ground about was thick sown with caltrops, which very much incommoded the shoeless Moors.c. 1681, Lancelot Addison, The Moores baffled: being a discourse concerning Tanger

Synonyms of shoeless

Origin of shoeless

From Middle English sholes, scholes, equivalent to shoe + -less. Compare Dutch schoenloos (“shoeless”), German schuhlos (“shoeless”), Old Norse skólaus (“shoeless”).

Words formed from shoeless

Questions about shoeless

What does shoeless mean?
Shoeless means without shoes; not wearing shoes.
What part of speech is shoeless?
Shoeless is an adjective.

Words near shoeless in the dictionary

  1. shoelace ties
  2. shoelaced
  3. shoelaces
  4. shoelacing
  5. shoeleather
  6. shoeless
  7. shoelessly
  8. shoelessness
  9. shoelike
  10. Shoels
  11. Shoemake

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