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Antonyms 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"

    Antonyms:
    head

    Synonyms:
    fundament, understructure, base, human foot, infantry, ft, foundation, metrical foot, groundwork, substructure, metrical unit, invertebrate foot, pes, animal foot

  2. foot, ftnoun

    a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard

    "he is six feet tall"

    Antonyms:
    head

    Synonyms:
    fundament, understructure, base, human foot, infantry, ft, foundation, metrical foot, groundwork, substructure, metrical unit, invertebrate foot, pes, animal foot

  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"

    Antonyms:
    head

    Synonyms:
    fundament, understructure, base, human foot, infantry, ft, foundation, metrical foot, groundwork, substructure, metrical unit, invertebrate foot, pes, animal foot

  4. animal foot, footnoun

    the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings

    Antonyms:
    head

    Synonyms:
    fundament, understructure, base, human foot, infantry, ft, foundation, metrical unit, metrical foot, groundwork, substructure, invertebrate foot, pes, animal foot

  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"

    Antonyms:
    head

    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

  6. foot, invertebrate footnoun

    any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates

    Antonyms:
    head

    Synonyms:
    fundament, understructure, base, human foot, infantry, ft, foundation, metrical foot, groundwork, substructure, metrical unit, invertebrate foot, pes, animal foot

  7. footnoun

    travel by walking

    "he followed on foot"; "the swiftest of foot"

    Antonyms:
    head

    Synonyms:
    fundament, understructure, base, human foot, infantry, ft, foundation, metrical foot, groundwork, substructure, metrical unit, invertebrate foot, pes, animal foot

  8. footnoun

    a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger

    Antonyms:
    head

    Synonyms:
    fundament, understructure, base, human foot, infantry, ft, foundation, metrical foot, groundwork, substructure, metrical unit, invertebrate foot, pes, animal foot

  9. infantry, footnoun

    an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot

    "there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot"

    Antonyms:
    head

    Synonyms:
    fundament, understructure, base, human foot, infantry, ft, foundation, metrical unit, metrical foot, groundwork, substructure, invertebrate foot, pes, animal foot

  10. metrical foot, foot, metrical unitnoun

    (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm

    Antonyms:
    head

    Synonyms:
    fundament, understructure, metrical foot, human foot, infantry, ft, foundation, base, groundwork, substructure, invertebrate foot, pes, metrical unit, animal foot

  11. footverb

    a support resembling a pedal extremity

    "one foot of the chair was on the carpet"

    Antonyms:
    head

    Synonyms:
    fundament, understructure, base, human foot, infantry, ft, foundation, metrical foot, groundwork, substructure, metrical unit, invertebrate foot, pes, animal foot

  12. foot, pickverb

    pay for something

    "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"; "foot the bill"

    Antonyms:
    head

    Synonyms:
    clean, leg it, pick, beak, pluck, nibble, hoof, foot up, find fault, hoof it, plunk, blame, piece, break up, peck, cull

  13. foot, leg it, hoof, hoof itverb

    walk

    "let's hoof it to the disco"

    Antonyms:
    head

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

  14. foot, foot upverb

    add a column of numbers

    Antonyms:
    head

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

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

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. lego

    Submitted by anonymous on January 24, 2021  
  2. paw

    walk on foot; walk

    Submitted by anonymous on May 9, 2021  

How to use foot in a sentence?

  1. Sarah DeLong:

    This woman drove with her left foot and both hands (and eyes) on her phone while she was driving, the entire time we were near her, which was a good 20 minutes.

  2. Most Americans:

    There was a chance after January 6 for Republican leaders to really put their foot down and say, ‘We can’t be the insurrectionist party,’ now that opportunity is totally gone.

  3. Anthony Fauci:

    Whenever you're having an effect, it's not time to take your foot off the accelerator, and that's what I hope. And I know that we can that do over the next 30 days.

  4. Dartmouth College anthropologist Jeremy DeSilva:

    Our science has known for decades that upright walking, bipedalism, preceded brain enlargement over the course of human evolution. But never before has it been so obvious. Homo naledi possessed a strikingly modern human-like foot, even though its brain was only about one-third the size of our brains today.

  5. Karyn Cavanaugh:

    Greece can't pay their bills, there's no middle ground there and other countries are going to have to foot the bill and they are angry.

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