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SURE-FOOTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sure-footed mean?
• SURE-FOOTED (adjective)
The adjective SURE-FOOTED has 2 senses:
1. not liable to stumble or fall
2. not liable to error in judgment or action
Familiarity information: SURE-FOOTED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not liable to stumble or fall
Synonyms:
footsure; sure-footed; surefooted
Context example:
on surefooted donkeys
Similar:
steady (not subject to change or variation especially in behavior)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not liable to error in judgment or action
Synonyms:
confident; sure-footed; surefooted
Context example:
demonstrates a surefooted storytelling talent
Similar:
capable ((usually followed by 'of') having capacity or ability)
Context examples
I afterwards hired a mule, as the more sure-footed and least liable to receive injury on these rugged roads.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Yet he faced his foemen with dauntless courage, dashing in, springing back, sure-footed, steady-handed, with a point which seemed to menace three at once.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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