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light-footed
adjective as in light
adjective as in rapid
Strongest matches
adjective as in weightless
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- agile
- airy
- atmospheric
- buoyant
- crumbly
- dainty
- delicate
- downy
- easy
- effervescent
- featherweight
- feathery
- filmy
- flimsy
- floatable
- floating
- fluffy
- friable
- frothy
- gossamery
- graceful
- imponderous
- insubstantial
- light as a feather
- lightweight
- lithe
- little
- loose
- meager
- nimble
- petty
- porous
- portable
- sandy
- sheer
- slender
- slight
- small
- spongy
- sprightly
- sylphlike
- thin
- tissuelike
- trifling
- unheavy
- unsubstantial
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Example Sentences
Away ran the light-footed girl, ever ready to render a service to the old man, and to shield Gilbert from blame.
They are all over, but so silent and light-footed are they that it is difficult to believe them to be anything but shadows.
Kilmeny strode after the Cornishmen with the light-footed step of a night nurse.
At sundown he went skipping down the mountain again with his light-footed animals.
A bell was rung at certain hours to collect the light-footed tribe to their meals.
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On this page you'll find 151 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to light-footed, such as: agile, airy, buoyant, delicate, fluffy, and lightweight.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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