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LIGHT-FOOTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does light-footed mean? 

LIGHT-FOOTED (adjective)
  The adjective LIGHT-FOOTED has 1 sense:

1. (of movement) having a light and springy stepplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


LIGHT-FOOTED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(of movement) having a light and springy step

Context example:

a light-footed girl

Similar:

light; lightsome; tripping (moving easily and quickly; nimble)

Antonym:

heavy-footed ((of movement) lacking ease or lightness)


 Context examples 


I see genuine contentment in your gait and mien, your eye and face, when you are helping me and pleasing me—working for me, and with me, in, as you characteristically say, 'all that is right:' for if I bid you do what you thought wrong, there would be no light-footed running, no neat-handed alacrity, no lively glance and animated complexion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Of course, there were many light-footed, shrill-voiced American girls, handsome, lifeless-looking English ditto, and a few plain but piquante French demoiselles, likewise the usual set of traveling young gentlemen who disported themselves gaily, while mammas of all nations lined the walls and smiled upon them benignly when they danced with their daughters.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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