footed
/ˈfʊtɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of foot
adj
Having a foot or feet; (in combination) having a specified form or type of foot or number of feet.
adj
Consisting of, or having been put into, metrical feet (of a specified character or number).
Example Sentences
- "Scarsely had Phœbus in the glooming East / Yet harnessed his firie-footed teeme, / Ne reard above the earth his flaming creast;"
- "This tiger-footed rage, when it shall find / The harm of unscann'd swiftness, will too late / Tie leaden pounds to's heels."
- "To maintaine therefore that sconce of thine, strongly guarded, and in good reparation, never suffer combe to fasten his teeth there: let thy haire grow thick and bushy like a forest, or some wildernesse; lest those sixe-footed creatures that breed in it, and are Tenants to that crowneland of thine, bee hunted to death by every base barbarous Barber; and so that delicate, and tickling pleasure of scratching, be utterly taken from thee:"
- "Thither, by harpy-footed Furies haled, / At certain revolutions all the damned / Are brought;"
- "On the east was only laid a single table. But there as well were placed carved screens, covered with dragons, and a short low-footed couch, with a full assortment of back-cushions, reclining-cushions and skin-rugs."
- "[…] the leaves fell from the trees till they stood as though it were winter, and the small tough-footed boys ran from shade to shade because of the heat of the ground."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: foted
Inflected Forms
more footed (comparative)
most footed (superlative)
Derived Forms
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
footedly