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Synonyms for foot
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Princeton's WordNet4.0 / 1 vote

  1. 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 foot

    Antonyms:
    head

  2. foot, 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 foot

    Antonyms:
    head

  3. footnoun

    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 foot

    Antonyms:
    head

  4. animal 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 foot

    Antonyms:
    head

  5. foundation, 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, bag

    Antonyms:
    head

  6. foot, 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 foot

    Antonyms:
    head

  7. footnoun

    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 foot

    Antonyms:
    head

  8. footnoun

    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 foot

    Antonyms:
    head

  9. infantry, 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 foot

    Antonyms:
    head

  10. metrical 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 foot

    Antonyms:
    head

  11. footverb

    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 foot

    Antonyms:
    head

  12. foot, 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, cull

    Antonyms:
    head

  13. foot, leg it, hoof, hoof itverb

    walk

    "let's hoof it to the disco"

    Synonyms:
    foot up, pick, leg it, hoof it, hoof

    Antonyms:
    head

  14. foot, foot upverb

    add a column of numbers

    Synonyms:
    foot up, pick, leg it, hoof it, hoof

    Antonyms:
    head

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. 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 Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. footnoun

    Synonyms:
    PAW

  2. footnoun

    Synonyms:
    base, bottom, lower part

  3. footnoun

    Synonyms:
    twelve inches

  4. footnoun

    Synonyms:
    (Mil.) infantry, foot-soldiers

  5. footverb

    Synonyms:
    add a foot to (a stocking, boot, &c.), supply with a foot

  6. footverb

    Synonyms:
    add up (figures), sum up

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words5.0 / 1 vote

  1. footnoun

    Synonyms:
    paw, hoof, base, bottom, extremity

    Associated words:
    chiropody, chiropodist, pedicure, orthopedy, orthopedic, orthopedist, pedal, plantigrade, bastinado, taligrade, palmigrade, cloven, ball, instep, phalanges

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How to use foot in a sentence?

  1. Turkish proverb:

    If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.

  2. Dan Harris:

    Chinese manufacturers don't want U.S. buyers anymore as they view all of them as having one foot out the door.

  3. Larry Krasner:

    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.

  4. 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.

  5. Will Jennings:

    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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