Synonyms for foot
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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

Matched Categories

1. • Add
   • Arithmetic
   • Army Unit
   • Bottom
   • Linear Unit
   • Meter
   • Military
   • Organ
   • Pay
   • Prosody
   • Secret Agent
   • Support
   • Vertebrate Foot
   • Walk

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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 SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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 WordsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "foot":

   feet, pied, afta, footing, fever, ft, walk, toe, paw, walking, leg, foothold, stalk, infantrymen, soccer, infantry, pay, football, footer, ft., pedal, foot-and-mouth

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1. David Keefe:

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2. Gretchen Whitmer:

   Right outside my office right now, people have come to town who are not wearing masks, they are not observing the six-foot distance, give me some advice. How can I magnify what you're seeing and what you're experiencing ?

3. Steve Hersh:

   Now you go to a Wegmans or Food Emporium, you're going to see our four packs on a four-foot (wide) shelf, and you're going to go, 'oh, that's a brand,' rather than three little bottles in a sea of soda.

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   Hes going up and probably seeing one of the best foot doctors.