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lead-footed

ADJECTIVE

heavy

Synonyms

STRONGEST

awkward big bulky burdensome considerable cumbersome excessive fat hefty huge large massive substantial unwieldy weighty

STRONG

gross lumbering overweight stout

WEAK

ample beefy built chunky corpulent cumbrous elephantine enceinte expectant fleshy gravid laden loaded obese parturient ponderous porcine portly pregnant top-heavy two-ton unmanageable weighted zaftig

Antonyms

STRONGEST

convenient easy graceful handy light little miniature poor slight small thin unimportant unsubstantial

STRONG

skinny tiny underweight

WEAK

inconsequential lightweight

ADJECTIVE

heavy-laden

Synonyms

WEAK

abundant ample awkward beefy big built bulky burdensome chunky considerable copious corpulent cumbersome cumbrous elephantine enceinte excessive expectant fat fleshy gravid gross hefty huge laden large loaded

ADJECTIVE

heavyweight

Synonyms

STRONG

fat gross large

WEAK

abundant ample awkward beefy big built bulky burdensome chunky considerable copious corpulent cumbersome cumbrous elephantine enceinte excessive expectant fleshy gravid hefty huge laden loaded

Antonyms

STRONG

skinny slender thin

ADJECTIVE

lumbering

Synonyms

STRONGEST

hulking ungainly unwieldy

STRONG

blundering bovine bumbling clunking halting heavy overgrown splay

WEAK

clodhopping elephantine gauche gawky heavy-footed inept klutzy lumpish maladroit ponderous two left feet unhandy wooden

Antonyms

WEAK

agile gliding lithe

Example Sentences

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Shakespeare’s play and its title character can be viewed from many perspectives, and one positive aspect of Tata’s production is that it doesn’t turn the play into a lead-footed contemporary political allegory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

Gleiberman concluded the film is "lighter, more frolicsome, less lead-footed than such clomping live-action Disney remakes as Alice in Wonderland and Beauty and the Beast".

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2025

Regarding the March 15 front-page article “Fears of a lead-footed Fed follow bank panic”:

From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2023

So you can’t entirely blame movies for lead-footed Angelenos and the notoriety they came to acquire when the glare of publicity and later of the roving aerial spotlight fell upon them.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2022

I was standing there, lead-footed with horror, when two men pushed through the door carrying a sheet-wrapped bundle between them.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

lead-footed

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