FOOTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does footed mean? 

• FOOTED (adjective)
  The adjective FOOTED has 1 sense:

1. having feet

  Familiarity information: FOOTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOOTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having feet

Context example:

a footed sofa

Similar:

flat-footed; flatfooted (with feet flat on the ground; not tiptoe)

pedate (having or resembling a foot)

fast-footed; swift-footed (having rapidly moving feet)

web-footed; web-toed (having feet with webbed toes)

Antonym:

footless (having no feet or analogous appendages)

 Context examples 

He was cat-footed, and lithe, and strong, always strong.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A London firm made arrangements by cable for an English edition, and hot-footed upon this came the news of French, German, and Scandinavian translations in progress.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

When day broke, and the battle was to begin, all the four-footed animals came running up with such a noise that the earth trembled.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I afterwards hired a mule, as the more sure-footed and least liable to receive injury on these rugged roads.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The Ibizan Hound is "hare-footed," with long toes.

(Ibizan Hound, NCI Thesaurus)

At once he became a thing of the wild, stealing along softly, cat-footed, a passing shadow that appeared and disappeared among the shadows.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Its noise and outcry warned him of its presence, while he ran alone, velvet- footed, silently, a moving shadow among the trees after the manner of his father and mother before him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Already I was down from the high peaks and standing flat-footed upon earth.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From side to side stretched the thin line of the English, lightly armed and quick-footed, while against it stormed and raged the pressing throng of fiery Spaniards and of gallant Bretons.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Mush-on, you poor, sore-footed brutes!" he cried. "That's it, mush-on!"

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)