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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Examples
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What Larry now did, as he got into the taxi, he would have called footless and foolhardy an hour before, and at any other hour his judgment might have restrained him.
Children of the Whirlwind Leroy Scott 1902
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(a) what is simply without some power, but also (b) what is adapted by nature to have it but has not it or has it only in a very low degree, as when we say that a species of swallow is 'footless' or that
ON THE SOUL Aristotle 1935
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No wonder dancers always wore "footless tights," which became today's leggings.
Martha Rosenberg: Before You Bash the Fashion Industry, Remember It Gave Us Leggings Martha Rosenberg 2011
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But time and again, she was told footless panty hose was simply a bad idea.
Matt Wilson: Three Steps to Gain a Competitive Advantage Matt Wilson 2010
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Now that is just the kind of delight in the senses that scares those who would control the contours of pleasure, and those who feel footless, out of control when such pleasure -- not its simulation -- wells up.
ArtScene: Southern California's Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010 ArtScene 2011
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No wonder dancers always wore "footless tights," which became today's leggings.
Martha Rosenberg: Before You Bash the Fashion Industry, Remember It Gave Us Leggings Martha Rosenberg 2011
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Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, bucked conventional wisdom when she approached hosiery mills with the idea of manufacturing footless pantyhose.
Matt Wilson: Three Steps to Gain a Competitive Advantage Matt Wilson 2010
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Aristotle's approach to the subject is to ask "why some animals are footless, others bipeds, others quadrupeds, others polypods, and why all have an even number of feet, if they have feet at all; why in fine the points on which progression depends are even in number."
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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With a little hard work and a lot of time, a headless, footless and handless body soon stood in my apartment.
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Aristotle's approach to the subject is to ask "why some animals are footless, others bipeds, others quadrupeds, others polypods, and why all have an even number of feet, if they have feet at all; why in fine the points on which progression depends are even in number."
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
mollusque commented on the word footless
and fancy free?
April 11, 2008
victoriapl commented on the word footless
"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