[
US
/ˈbɛɹˌfʊt/
]
[ UK /bˈeəfʊt/ ]
[ UK /bˈeəfʊt/ ]
ADVERB
-
without shoes on
he chased her barefoot across the meadow
ADJECTIVE
-
without shoes
shoeless Joe Jackson
the barefoot boy
How To Use barefoot In A Sentence
- They have innumerable beautiful, barefoot children, live in low-slung, thatched, whitewashed cottages, and their climate is often cool, damp and misty.
- Jamaerah was barefoot, wearing only a pair of ragged stonewashed jeans, playing an invisible guitar to “Put Your Lights On,” rocking out while coffee brewed, singing his heart out in perfect pitch, wings spread, eyes closed, and an expression of sheer ecstasy gracing his beautiful face. Surrender the Dark
- The men are dressed in shabby, quilted jackets; they are bareheaded and barefoot.
- I'm in my running shorts and my T-shirt, and I'm barefooted.
- Barefoot and wiry, his leathered face looks older than his 29 years.
- In summer they go barefoot, but seldom barelegged, as has been lately asserted by a traveller.
- Among my favorites are the triumphant warrior Fortinbras represented by a pair of barefoot drips in angel costume, he blond and epicene, she a redheaded virago.
- Try to avoid walking around barefoot in communal areas. The Sun
- They were surrounded by hyenas, crocodiles and hippos and while in the swamps they went barefoot so they would feel a potentially deadly crocodile beneath their feet. The Sun
- To study these reclusive animals, he wades barefoot through the swamps of Venezuela's llanos wetlands ecosystem in search of his water-dwelling subjects.