barefooted
Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
Adjective
- Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
- By following the sound I came upon a bare-footed old woman with a yellow dried-up countenance, who was bending down over the pigs' trough, busy filling it with food, for which the noisy little creatures were fighting,...
- There were no roads, only paths through the grass worn away by barefooted boys and women. - 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 9:
Origin
From bare + footed.
Forms
Synonyms
barefoot bare-footen discalceate discalced shoeless unshod unshoed
Adverb
- Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.