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shoeless

shoeless

4 1.7
Having nothing on the feet
  • adjective
  • /ˈʃuːləs/
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  • Sharp stones hurt their shoeless feet.
  • shoeless feet
  • shoeless man
  • shoeless stroll

And then he does come down and he's like shirtless and shoeless, like in his gym shorts.

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Examples

  • On hot days, we often enjoyed walking shoeless along the sandy beach.

  • Number three, it was a family of dirty shoeless children and I was one of them.

  • Children run around naked and shoeless and play as children do.

    Academic text (1998)
  • I pointed to my shoeless foot.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • These shoeless children are with me, Mr. Summers.

  • Maputo is crowded with homeless and often shoeless refugees, people without work or a place to wash or enough to eat.

    Academic text (1998)
  • The kids, and they're about half of the refugees, are dirty, and if not naked, then shoeless and needy.

    Academic text (1998)
  • On my part, I acted like a man so used to shoeless runners picking their way through broken rock and mud that his feet weren't worth commenting on.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • The shoeless children played joyfully in the warm summer grass.

  • After running through the field, he realized he was completely shoeless and covered in dirt.

Synonyms

barefoot
vsshoeless
72 1.1

Not wearing shoes or socks

is simpler and more direct in everyday wording
unshod
vsshoeless
  • Archaic
1 8.6

A person or animal that is not wearing shoes, like a horse without horseshoes

is used only for people and not applied to animals
barefooted
vsshoeless
1 1.5

With no shoes on your feet

is used as the standard less descriptive label
unshoed
vsshoeless
9.1

Not wearing shoes, especially said about animals like horses

is the general word not specific to horses

Antonyms

1 7.2

Wearing shoes or other footwear

How Shod

shoed
1 5.6
shoeless
4 1.7
barefoot
72 1.1

Surface Forms

shoeless positive

Morphology

shoeless = shoe (transparent) = shoe + less

The word 'shoeless' is transparently derived from 'shoe' with the suffix '-less' indicating the absence of shoes.

Etymology

Shoeless puts together the simple word shoe and the ending -less, which means 'without', like in hopeless or careless. So, shoeless means 'not wearing shoes', like a child running barefoot.