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footed

adj · verb · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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/ˈfʊtɪd/
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rhymes with -ʊtɪd
CMU ARPABET: F UH1 T IH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

adj

Meaning 1

Having a foot or feet; (in combination) having a specified form or type of foot or number of feet.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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adj

Meaning 2

Consisting of, or having been put into, metrical feet (of a specified character or number).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: in-compounds, usually

Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, prosody, sciences

Examples

2003, Tony K. Stewart, Introduction to Rabindranath Tagore, The Lover of God, Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, p. 12, As for the strict forms in which the original poems were written, it seemed an empty exercise to force English into those particular strictures, which in Bengali literary tradition are richly associative but which in English are not. The familiar fourteen-syllable payār couplet with its aa bb cc rhymes and the more intricate three-footed tripadi of variable length and rhyme were the first casualties of the process.
each six-footed line of the verse

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adj

Meaning 3

Having a foot

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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verb

Meaning 4

simple past and past participle of foot

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, participle, past

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adjective

Meaning 5

having feet

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

footed creatures
a footed sofa

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: footless

History

Etymology

From Middle English foted, i-foted, equivalent to foot + -ed.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Word forms

Inflections and variants

more footed — comparative
most footed — superlative

Word family

Derived and related words

Derived: bare-footed, barefooted, bastard big-footed mouse, big-footed mouse, black-footed cat, black-footed ferret, black-footed rock wallaby, brush-footed butterfly, cat-footed, clawfooted, cloven-footed, clubfooted, club-footed, comb-footed spider, dragfooted, duck-footed, fiddle-footed, fin-footed, flatfooted, flat-footed, fleet-footed, fleetfooted, fleet footed, footed drum, footedness, four-footed, front-footed, greater big-footed mouse, hand-footed, heavy-footed, heavy-footed moa, in-footed, lead-footed, leaf-footed, leaf-footed bug, left-footed, light-footed, long-footed potoroo, mouth-footed, one-footed, orange-footed scrubfowl, pale-footed bush warbler, Petter's big-footed mouse, pig-footed bandicoot, pink-footed goose, polt-footed, red-footed falcon, red-footed tortoise, right-footed, rough-footed, rough-footed mud turtle, slew-footed, slow-footed, slowfooted, slue-footed, splayfooted, splay-footed, sure-footed, surefooted, swift-footed, tickle-footed, turtle-footed, two-footed, unfooted, web-footed, webfooted, web-footed gecko, white-footed fox, white-footed mouse, whole-footed, wing-footed, wrong-footed, yoke-footed

Related: footedly

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