footless
adjEtymology From Middle English fotles, from Old English *fōtlēas (only found as fēþelēas (“footless”)), from Proto-Germanic *fōtalausaz (“footless”), equivalent to foot + -less. Cognate with Dutch voetloos, German fußlos, Swedish fotlös, Icelandic fótalaus (“footless, legless”).
1
Without feet.
- The snake is a footless creature.
2
Colloquial Clumsy or inept.
- Derived terms
- footlessly, footlessness