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footless

[ foot-lis ]

adjective

  1. lacking a foot or feet. foot.
  2. having no support or basis; unsubstantial:

    footless dreams of glory.

  3. awkward, helpless, or inefficient.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of footless1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; foot, -less
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Example Sentences

He classes dragons (which he considers as essentially winged animals) either as footless or possessing two or four feet.

I said some footless thing or other to her the other day, and she turned me down, as Betty says.

It is a sort of nautical sister of the fabled bird of Paradise, which was footless, and never alighted out of the air.

Portuguese naturalists also represent the passaros de sol as footless, their mode of flight concealing the extremities.

It is a footless thing to spend valuable time in idle gossip, for the gossip is seldom a successful business man.

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