US /ˈbɛɹfʊt/ UK /ˈbɛəfʊt/
adj adv Freq #12607

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    wearing nothing on the feet

    The barefoot children ran across the warm sand.

  2. 2
    adv

    without shoes or other footwear

    She walked barefoot through the grass.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adj · wearing nothing on the feet shoelessunshodbarefooted
2 adv · without shoes or other... without shoes
Opposites
Word family
Forms barefooted
Derived forms barefootedbarefooting
Related forms barefootfootwear

Etymology

From Middle English barefote and Old English baerfot, a compound of bare + foot. Closely related compounds occur throughout the Germanic languages.

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