Meaning

Situated under one's foot or feet..

Definitions by Sense

1. Situated under one's foot or feet.
2. In the way; placed so as to obstruct or hinder.
3. Downtrodden; abject.
4. Under one's foot or feet.
5. In the way; situated so as to obstruct or hinder.
6. A storage compartment that sits below the deck of a boat.
7. (transitive) To provide a footing beneath; to shore up or underpin.
8. (accounting) To assign a column summary that is less than the sum of all the entries in that column.

Example Sentences

We'd go to the Downbeat Club, on Fifty-second Street, and I'd be so underfoot that Billie couldn't miss me.

You ask a lot of questions, Morty. Not very charismatic. It makes you kind of an [belch] under [belch] underfoot figure.

The workers were all big, burly, hard-hearted men, tromping through the marsh in their heavy boots without sparing so much as a single thought for the masses of tiny frogs they crushed underfoot.

The green turf was velvet underfoot.

With 3,600 h.p. underfoot, acceleration was reasonably brisk, but the flickering wheel-slip indicator light showed the prudence of not putting full power through the traction motors while there were traces of early-morning dampness on the rails.

It would be easier to do a big project like that someday when we don't have a bunch of newcomers underfoot.

If you're not going to help, at least get out from underfoot.

In the early stages of fishing, storage space for wet fish was extremely limited, as three pounds on either side, and most of the staging and underfoots, contained ice, leaving only two empty pounds for stowage.

Word Forms

• underfoots
• underfooting
• underfooted

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Use under foot when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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