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See definition of light-footed on Dictionary.com
  • as inlight
  • as inrapid
  • as inweightless

synonyms for light-footed

  • agile
  • airy
  • buoyant
  • delicate
  • fluffy
  • lightweight
  • loose
  • slender
  • slight
  • small
  • thin
  • dainty
  • featherweight
  • flimsy
  • floating
  • little
  • petty
  • portable
  • sheer
  • trifling
  • atmospheric
  • downy
  • effervescent
  • ethereal
  • feathery
  • filmy
  • floatable
  • friable
  • frothy
  • gossamery
  • graceful
  • imponderous
  • inconsequential
  • insubstantial
  • lithe
  • meager
  • nimble
  • porous
  • sandy
  • spongy
  • sprightly
  • sylphlike
  • tissuelike
  • trivial
  • unheavy
  • unsubstantial
  • weightless

antonyms for light-footed

MOST RELEVANT
  • big
  • coarse
  • fat
  • heavy
  • large
  • strong
  • thick
  • clumsy
  • weighted
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How to use light-footed in a sentence

Behold a dumpy, comfortable British paterfamilias in a light flannel suit and a faded sun hat.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORD
She did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.
BOYS AND GIRLS BOOKSHELF; A PRACTICAL PLAN OF CHARACTER BUILDING, VOLUME I (OF 17)VARIOUS
Mr. Jones swung round a large iron key he held in his hand, and light dawned upon him.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOOD
Distance, the uncertain light, and imagination, magnified it to a high wall; high as the wall of China.
THE GIANT OF THE NORTHR.M. BALLANTYNE
The faint candle-light glimmered on a ponderous gilded cornice, which had also sustained violence.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU
And it was no light task, then, for six hundred men to keep the peace on a thousand miles of frontier.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
They were never refused, for their recipients looked upon them much in the light of a royal command.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
I am pleading for a clear white light of education that shall go like the sun round the whole world.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLS
The case may be kept in a light position, and when once under way it will rarely need any additional water.
HOW TO KNOW THE FERNSS. LEONARD BASTIN
It was no wonder that he felt quite at home in the duck-pond, which was made for web-footed folk.
THE TALE OF GRANDFATHER MOLEARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY
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