Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Treading with light and nimble ease.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Light of foot; stepping or skipping lightly or nimbly, as in running or dancing.
Wiktionary
- adj. Fleet, swift, not plodding, capable of running spritely.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of light-foot, ran.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of movement) having a light and springy step
Examples
“I am short, but I’ve never been what you might call light-footed.”
“She set off at a light-footed run from the canyon.”
“Sandel was in and out, here, there, and everywhere, light-footed and eager-hearted, a living wonder of white flesh and stinging muscle that wove itself into a dazzling fabric of attack, slipping and leaping like a flying shuttle from action to action through a thousand actions, all of them centred upon the destruction of Tom King, who stood between him and fortune.”
“The Laura Willowes of 1902 is a pleasant "middle-aging lady, light-footed upon stairs, and indispensable for Christmas Eve and birthday preparations.”
“Thomas Ouellette's light-footed, virtuosically coordinated staging flows as smoothly as a ballet and has just the right amount of comic crackle.”
“It's superbly streamlined from the tip of its jet-black nose to the end of its long, elegant tail, and surprisingly light-footed, treading carefully and deliberately.”
The Guardian: 'Out here in the veld I understand the bewitching power of the cheetah'
“Dashing Prince Rupert thicker around the middle and slightly balding, but light-footed and beautifully turned out, nonetheless opens the door for her himself.”
“A agreement struck last month would create one of the region's largest stock markets and provide a light-footed competitor to NYSE Euronext, Deutsche Boerse AG and the London Stock Exchange Group PLC , all of which are pursuing their own mergers.”
“Lubezki is known as chivo goat in Spanish and he is as light-footed and deft as that suggests.”
“Jonathan Epstein's Touchstone colors his light-footed wordplay with a deepening touch of wistfulness.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘light-footed’.
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Fairylike
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EN - compound adjectives ending in "-ed"
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-ight
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EN - compound adjectives
Adjectively used nominal phrases with a "-" inside.
O-ring, B-grade, t-test, so-called, on-site, at-large, in-your-face, in-state, on-time, up-to-the-minute, in-store, on-call and 965 more...
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EN - compound body adjectives
one-armed, strong-armed, red-bearded, wide-bodied, bare-breasted, double-breasted, black-eyed, dark-eyed, green-eyed, pop-eyed, red-eyed, slit-eyed and 27 more...
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describe me
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