barefoot

adverb or adjective

bare·​foot ˈber-ˌfu̇t How to pronounce barefoot (audio)
variants or barefooted
: with the feet bare
walked barefoot
barefoot boy, with cheek of tanJ. G. Whittier

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Think about wearing it while walking barefoot on the beach in Turks and Caicos or sipping iced lattes at a café in Los Angeles. Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2025 Danger hangs in the air like the clouds over the fields where Sammie works barefoot, mud squelched between his toes. Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025 More than a month later, and two days after her own memorial service, the lady preacher reappeared, still barefoot but now wandering around a Mexican desert, hundreds of miles away. Casey Cep, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025 The pilot weaved together two timelines with that 1996 crash and the present-day survivors, played by a beloved cast, and there was a killer flash-forward opening of an unidentified girl running for her life, barefoot through snow, who is then impaled and eaten by her friends. Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for barefoot

Word History

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of barefoot was before the 12th century

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“Barefoot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barefoot. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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barefoot

adverb or adjective
bare·​foot -ˌfu̇t How to pronounce barefoot (audio)
variants or barefooted
: with the feet bare : without shoes

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