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underfoot

underfoot

16 2.1
Beneath your feet on the ground where people walk, often wet or muddy
  • adverb
  • /ˌʌndərˈfʊt/
: bajo los pies
  • As one walks through the larger site, potsherds crunch underfoot.
  • crunching underfoot

Examples

  • The soft grass felt pleasant underfoot as we walked through the park.

  • Worse, as he adjusted the rope around his waist, Zach felt the rocky ground shift underfoot.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Even though the snow was packed down underfoot, the sides of the path were well above my head.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • This grass has been crushed underfoot recently.

    Yellow Ticket (2024)

  • When I turn back, I see the queen has stopped crying long enough to spread her jacket underfoot.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • The rug on the floor was dim and brown, so worn that it crunched underfoot.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Myrmeen was already climbing the stairs, her boots trampling the vines underfoot.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Oak and ash, alder and thorn, grew thickly around me, and their leaves underfoot muted my steps.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • The sobs tried to choke her as she vaulted over low sagebrush and crunched the crusted snow underfoot.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • I noticed broken branches and stones underfoot while hiking on the trail.

Antonyms

above
∞ 1.0

In a place higher than another point

overhead
55 3.4

Located above a person or thing

Surface Forms

underfoot positive

Morphology

underfoot = foot (transparent) = under + foot

The literal sense 'beneath one's feet' is directly predictable from the components 'under' + 'foot'. [Postprocessing: moved 'under' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Underfoot comes from the two simple words under 'beneath' and foot 'foot'. It literally means 'beneath the feet', so it describes things on the ground that you walk on.