Underfoot
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ʌndɚˈfʊt/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Underfoot is an adjective meaning Situated under one's foot or feet.
Meaning
Situated under one's foot or feet.
More Meanings
- In the way; placed so as to obstruct or hinder.
- Downtrodden; abject.
- Under one's foot or feet.
- In the way; situated so as to obstruct or hinder.
- A storage compartment that sits below the deck of a boat.
- (transitive) To provide a footing beneath; to shore up or underpin.
- (accounting) To assign a column summary that is less than the sum of all the entries in that column.
Example Sentences
The green turf was velvet underfoot.
If you're not going to help, at least get out from underfoot.
We'd go to the Downbeat Club, on Fifty-second Street, and I'd be so underfoot that Billie couldn't miss me.
It would be easier to do a big project like that someday when we don't have a bunch of newcomers underfoot.
Word Forms
- underfoots
- underfooting
- underfooted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include outside, foot, subplantar, submetatarsal, midfoot, understep.
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