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Synonyms for foot
fʊtfoot
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Princeton's WordNet
foot, human foot, pesnoun
the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
"his bare feet projected from his trousers"; "armored from head to foot"
Synonyms:
fundament, understructure, base, human foot, infantry, ft, foundation, metrical foot, groundwork, substructure, metrical unit, invertebrate foot, pes, animal footAntonyms:
headfoot, ftnoun
a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
"he is six feet tall"
Synonyms:
fundament, understructure, base, human foot, infantry, ft, foundation, metrical foot, groundwork, substructure, metrical unit, invertebrate foot, pes, animal footAntonyms:
headfootnoun
the lower part of anything
"curled up on the foot of the bed"; "the foot of the page"; "the foot of the list"; "the foot of the mountain"
Synonyms:
fundament, understructure, base, human foot, infantry, ft, foundation, metrical foot, groundwork, substructure, metrical unit, invertebrate foot, pes, animal footAntonyms:
headanimal foot, footnoun
the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
Synonyms:
fundament, understructure, base, human foot, infantry, ft, foundation, metrical unit, metrical foot, groundwork, substructure, invertebrate foot, pes, animal footAntonyms:
headfoundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructurenoun
lowest support of a structure
"it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower"
Synonyms:
metrical unit, bottom, foundation garment, founding, tail, groundwork, pes, al-Qaida, instauration, butt, pedestal, substructure, posterior, rear end, infantry, introduction, can, ft, nates, al-Qaeda, theme, basis, innovation, fundament, invertebrate foot, nucleotide, foundation, buttocks, prat, radical, root, animal foot, floor, stern, metrical foot, seat, backside, bum, tooshie, grounding, buns, arse, institution, hindquarters, tail end, behind, origination, understructure, alkali, cornerstone, base, hind end, derriere, rump, ass, home, keister, stem, base of operations, radix, root word, stand, rear, fanny, human foot, infrastructure, tush, initiation, al-Qa'ida, creation, bagAntonyms:
headfoot, invertebrate footnoun
any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
Synonyms:
fundament, understructure, base, human foot, infantry, ft, foundation, metrical foot, groundwork, substructure, metrical unit, invertebrate foot, pes, animal footAntonyms:
headfootnoun
travel by walking
"he followed on foot"; "the swiftest of foot"
Synonyms:
fundament, understructure, base, human foot, infantry, ft, foundation, metrical foot, groundwork, substructure, metrical unit, invertebrate foot, pes, animal footAntonyms:
headfootnoun
a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
Synonyms:
fundament, understructure, base, human foot, infantry, ft, foundation, metrical foot, groundwork, substructure, metrical unit, invertebrate foot, pes, animal footAntonyms:
headinfantry, footnoun
an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
"there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot"
Synonyms:
fundament, understructure, base, human foot, infantry, ft, foundation, metrical unit, metrical foot, groundwork, substructure, invertebrate foot, pes, animal footAntonyms:
headmetrical foot, foot, metrical unitnoun
(prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
Synonyms:
fundament, understructure, metrical foot, human foot, infantry, ft, foundation, base, groundwork, substructure, invertebrate foot, pes, metrical unit, animal footAntonyms:
headfootverb
a support resembling a pedal extremity
"one foot of the chair was on the carpet"
Synonyms:
fundament, understructure, base, human foot, infantry, ft, foundation, metrical foot, groundwork, substructure, metrical unit, invertebrate foot, pes, animal footAntonyms:
headfoot, pickverb
pay for something
"pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"; "foot the bill"
Synonyms:
clean, leg it, pick, beak, pluck, nibble, hoof, foot up, find fault, hoof it, plunk, blame, piece, break up, peck, cullAntonyms:
headfoot, leg it, hoof, hoof itverb
walk
"let's hoof it to the disco"
Synonyms:
foot up, pick, leg it, hoof it, hoofAntonyms:
headfoot, foot upverb
add a column of numbers
Synonyms:
foot up, pick, leg it, hoof it, hoofAntonyms:
head
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Editors Contribution
pauper
in early medieval times, poor people were referred to as paupers, which means foot, because they were at the foot of society, so to speak. now, it is only recognized as meaning a poor person.
that street was full of paupers. my pauper has been in a lot of pain today.
Submitted by rinat on September 22, 2019
Dictionary of English Synonymes
footnoun
Synonyms:
PAWfootnoun
Synonyms:
base, bottom, lower partfootnoun
Synonyms:
twelve inchesfootnoun
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(Mil.) infantry, foot-soldiersfootverb
Synonyms:
add a foot to (a stocking, boot, &c.), supply with a footfootverb
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
footnoun
Synonyms:
paw, hoof, base, bottom, extremityAssociated words:
chiropody, chiropodist, pedicure, orthopedy, orthopedic, orthopedist, pedal, plantigrade, bastinado, taligrade, palmigrade, cloven, ball, instep, phalanges
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FOOT
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#33 | home | |
#34 | can | |
#599 | pay | |
#988 | base | |
#1250 | foundation | |
#1304 | ass | |
#1338 | introduction | |
#1361 | basis | |
#1440 | feet | |
#1474 | football | |
#1531 | behind | |
#1533 | floor | |
#1778 | stand | |
#1796 | bottom | |
#1809 | clean | |
#1852 | piece | |
#1955 | root | |
#1995 | bag | |
#2008 | foot | |
#2065 | walk | |
#2096 | pick | |
#2124 | ft | |
#2168 | theme | |
#2710 | creation | |
#2738 | infrastructure | |
#2740 | seat | |
#2778 | soccer | |
#3081 | walking | |
#3146 | institution | |
#3398 | rear | |
#3936 | innovation | |
#4093 | leg | |
#4580 | butt | |
#4741 | toe | |
#5836 | stem | |
#5936 | tail | |
#6935 | fever | |
#6963 | radical | |
#7199 | blame | |
#10367 | founding | |
#10536 | stern | |
#10664 | infantry | |
#11830 | initiation | |
#12011 | pedal | |
#12451 | footer | |
#12755 | nucleotide | |
#15073 | cornerstone | |
#17287 | posterior | |
#17489 | pedestal | |
#17498 | paw | |
#17739 | peck | |
#20585 | bum | |
#20651 | fanny | |
#20818 | grounding | |
#24656 | arse | |
#24722 | footing | |
#27200 | origination | |
#27286 | stalk | |
#27524 | groundwork | |
#28085 | pluck | |
#28388 | pes | |
#30327 | buns | |
#32782 | backside | |
#32791 | alkali | |
#33207 | buttocks | |
#33686 | pied | |
#35909 | hoof | |
#36945 | beak | |
#38633 | radix | |
#41879 | cull | |
#45591 | rump | |
#48007 | foothold | |
#52833 | nibble | |
#58813 | prat | |
#59246 | substructure | |
#81978 | tush | |
#84983 | afta | |
#88781 | nates | |
#95819 | plunk | |
#123253 | derriere | |
#132482 | hindquarters | |
#135789 | keister | |
#136139 | infantrymen | |
#156396 | fundament |
How to use foot in a sentence?
If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
Chinese manufacturers don't want U.S. buyers anymore as they view all of them as having one foot out the door.
Thus when Officer Mendoza fired the third and fatal shot, he knew the 12-year-old, 5-foot tall, 111-pound Thomas Siderio no longer had a gun and no ability to harm him.
Chief Executive Alain Bellemare:
Today, we only use about 10 percent of a 370-acre site at Downsview and bear the entire cost of operating a 7,000-foot runway.
If the Conservatives are serious about removing Prime Minister Boris Johnson, they must also be serious about replacing Prime Minister Boris Johnson with someone who can sincerely relaunch a party that has been in government since 2010, if they do get absolutely hammered at the locals, which is not out of the question and quite common for sitting governments, it would put that new leader immediately on the back foot.
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