Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having no feet.
  • adjective Lacking a firm support or basis; unsubstantial.
  • adjective Informal Not competent or skillful; inept.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having no feet; without footing or basis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having no feet.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Without feet.
  • adjective colloquial Clumsy or inept.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having no feet or analogous appendages

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  • and fancy free?

    April 11, 2008

  • "I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung

    My eager craft through footless halls of air..."

    Highflight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

    July 4, 2008