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SURE-FOOTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sure-footed mean? 

SURE-FOOTED (adjective)
  The adjective SURE-FOOTED has 2 senses:

1. not liable to stumble or fallplay

2. not liable to error in judgment or actionplay

  Familiarity information: SURE-FOOTED used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SURE-FOOTED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Not liable to stumble or fall

Synonyms:

footsure; sure-footed; surefooted

Context example:

on surefooted donkeys

Similar:

steady (not subject to change or variation especially in behavior)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Not liable to error in judgment or action

Synonyms:

confident; sure-footed; surefooted

Context example:

demonstrates a surefooted storytelling talent

Similar:

capable ((usually followed by 'of') having capacity or ability)


 Context examples 


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)

Yet he faced his foemen with dauntless courage, dashing in, springing back, sure-footed, steady-handed, with a point which seemed to menace three at once.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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