footless

[ foot-lis ]

adjective

1. lacking a foot or feet. foot.
2. having no support or basis; unsubstantial:

   footless dreams of glory.

3. awkward, helpless, or inefficient.

Word History and Origins

Origin of footless¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; foot, -less

Example Sentences

He classes dragons (which he considers as essentially winged animals) either as footless or possessing two or four feet.

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I said some footless thing or other to her the other day, and she turned me down, as Betty says.

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It is a sort of nautical sister of the fabled bird of Paradise, which was footless, and never alighted out of the air.

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Portuguese naturalists also represent the passaros de sol as footless, their mode of flight concealing the extremities.

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It is a footless thing to spend valuable time in idle gossip, for the gossip is seldom a successful business man.

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