HEAVY-FOOTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heavy-footed mean? 

• HEAVY-FOOTED (adjective)
  The adjective HEAVY-FOOTED has 1 sense:

1. (of movement) lacking ease or lightness

  Familiarity information: HEAVY-FOOTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEAVY-FOOTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of movement) lacking ease or lightness

Context example:

his tired heavy-footed walk

Similar:

heavy; lumbering; ponderous (slow and laborious because of weight)

Antonym:

light-footed ((of movement) having a light and springy step)

 Context examples 

Often I have watched them come up the aisle upon a Sunday, first the square, thick-set man, and then the little, worn, anxious-eyed woman, and last this glorious lad with his clear-cut face, his black curls, and his step so springy and light that it seemed as if he were bound to earth by some lesser tie than the heavy-footed villagers round him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)