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HEAVY-FOOTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does heavy-footed mean?
• HEAVY-FOOTED (adjective)
The adjective HEAVY-FOOTED has 1 sense:
1. (of movement) lacking ease or lightness
Familiarity information: HEAVY-FOOTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of movement) lacking ease or lightness
Context example:
his tired heavy-footed walk
Similar:
heavy; lumbering; ponderous (slow and laborious because of weight)
Antonym:
light-footed ((of movement) having a light and springy step)
Context examples
Often I have watched them come up the aisle upon a Sunday, first the square, thick-set man, and then the little, worn, anxious-eyed woman, and last this glorious lad with his clear-cut face, his black curls, and his step so springy and light that it seemed as if he were bound to earth by some lesser tie than the heavy-footed villagers round him.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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