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booted

booted

2.5
Wearing boots on your feet
  • adjective
  • /ˈbuːtɪd/
translation icon : calzado con botas
  • She was booted and ready to head out into the snow.

They turn up suited and booted silk tight slicked hair, very neat, very tidy.

Examples

  • The hikers wore sturdy, booted shoes to tackle the rocky trail.

  • They turn up suited and booted silk tight slicked hair, very neat, very tidy.

  • I'm wearing the same jeans and my totem boots as yesterday.

  • But perhaps one of the most iconic pairs of football boots to ever grace a pitch, the Puma King.

  • He slipped on his booted feet and left the house for the day.

Synonyms

jackbooted
vsbooted
8.4

Wearing heavy military style boots as part of a uniform

is more general, meaning wearing any kind of footwear
bootied
vsbooted
7.2

Having small soft covers on the feet to keep them warm, like baby socks or slippers

is broader, meaning wearing ordinary or sturdier types of footwear

Antonyms

72 1.1

Not wearing shoes or socks

Idioms

Dressed in smart, formal clothes for a special event

Compounds

booted armillaria
  • Specialized
9.9

A mushroom with a brown cap, white gills and a ring on the stalk that grows near trees

How Booted

booted
2.5
shod
1 7.2
barefoot
72 1.1

Surface Forms

booted positive

Morphology

booted = boot (semi-transparent) = boot + ed

The form clearly contains 'boot' plus '-ed', but the adjectival sense 'wearing boots' is a lexicalized participial meaning rather than a fully predictable rule for all learners.

Etymology

Booted is simply boot + -ed, which means 'wearing boots' or 'having boots on'. Think of someone with heavy boots ready for rough ground — that's why booted describes a person who has boots on.