Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. On foot; walking.
- adv. In the process of being carried out; astir: plans afoot to resign.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- On foot; walking: opposed to on horseback, or in a carriage or other conveyance: as, he was mounted, but I came afoot.
- In a condition to walk about, as after sickness.
- Astir; stirring; about.
- In progress; in course of being carried out: as, there is mischief afoot.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. On foot.
- adv. Fig.: In motion; in action; astir; in progress.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. on foot; walking.
- adj. currently in progress
- adj. traveling by foot
Etymologies
- From a- + foot. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it.”
“There will be more afoot, in other words, than sonic silliness.”
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“But in the wider context, something greater is afoot, which is the assembling of all the institutions of State by which one may say "we have become an Independent Sovereign State".”
“One thing I think is relevant, assuming there ` s a terrorist plot afoot, which is a very big assumption.”
“But now the deer turned to the right and made for a distant thicket, and Lionel saw the young hunter spring from his lagging steed, and, with a stout cord reeled around his arm, dash after the stag afoot, while hounds and hunters panted far behind.”
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“Hartmann's article did not change my mind, but it did force me to realize that the issue is really "afoot," as they say.”
“The team looked fractured from order up on high at the end of the prior season, but something else was afoot which is revealed.”
“I rather liked the premise, it sounded like a good comedy to read during a vacation, but then you said "afoot".”
“With the evidence already gathered, the game is afoot, meaning this week is too late to stop sharing those movies and expect to get away with it.”
“Bones got "afoot" — the great body did need rest at times — and waited tensely.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘afoot’.
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When a door is ajar
Words with the prefix "a"
ajar, asleep, akin, ablaze, afoot, abed, aground, aback, afloat, alive, abaft, abloom and 91 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2057 more...
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5000 FREE SAT Words
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 229 more...
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Because I like them: A -- B
abacinate, aberdevine, ablepsy, abuccinate, acarology, acipenserine, abactor, adamantine, addressin, aeoline, ahimsa, agelast and 151 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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Yet more words
hootowling, hoot owl, midday, prohibitive, shutdown, gerund, tripe, doweling, detestable, good measure, boojum, undergirding and 167 more...
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As soon as I finish this chapter
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procrastination, drily, rheumatism, rheum, suint, tiresome, wearisome, tiring, suboptimal, subpar, subprime, grange and 190 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
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bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 456 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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working list
overkill, premonition, discombobulation, golliwogs, guerilla, paraphernalia, banter, gambit, atonement, leeway, ingenuity, haberdashery and 164 more...
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complicated words
mire, mirth, misapplication, reluctant, aghast, surreptitiously, wares, abashed, leap, dash, peer, tangle and 107 more...
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unpack your adjectives
and adverbs
walrusine, slipshod, bemused, inscrutable, bombastic, cattywampus, copacetic, famished, crackpot, flailsome, lugubrious, scalesome and 102 more...
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
aaargh, niqaabi, Isaac, raad, baaed, haaf, laager, aah, kamaaina, Naajaat, aak, aalii and 637 more...
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some of my favorites
flourish, oddment, persnickety, obfuscate, folly, moxie, flimflam, fisticuffs, whicker, sibilance, filch, succor and 76 more...
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Awords
Say "Aaaaaaaaa...." For definition see "aword".
agape, aboard, afoot, ajar, aword, awash, avast, award, athwart, awake, alive, about and 8 more...
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bilby ""Hi Girls, PLEASE you can use the shoes, because to walk naked afoot you disturb the people. THANKS GIRLS."
We stared at it in wonderment for a few minutes. Walking naked afoot? How could that possibly upset the elderly woman we'd come to learn lived below us? If she had complained about the loud music on the weekend, or the constant drone of the television, or let alone the revolving door of college girls who paraded through the apartment and chattered loudly in the staircase at all hours of the day, I would have conceded she was right. But bare feet?"
- Stephanie Peters, 'Le Scarpe'. Feb 18, 2009
super-julia "Strange things are afoot at the Circle K."
~ Ted Feb 13, 2008