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flat-footed

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Adjective
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flat-foot=ed

CIDE DICTIONARY

flat-footeda. 
  •  Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of the instep; suffering from fallen arches.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Firm-footed; determined.  [1913 Webster]
  •  clumsy; amateurish; pedestrian; unimaginative; plodding; as, flatfooted prose.  [PJC]
  •  Without reservation; without evasion or compromise; firm; as, a flat-footed refusal; a flatfooted denial.  [PJC]
  •  With feet flat on the ground; not tiptoe.  [WordNet 1.5]
  •  Unprepared and unable to react quickly; as, the new product caught their competitors flat-footed.  [WordNet 1.5]
To catch (one) flatfooted to catch (a person) unprepared; to catch (a person) by surprise.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

flat-footed, adj.
1 having flat feet.
2 colloq. downright, positive.
3 colloq. unprepared; off guard (was caught flat-footed).

Derivative
flat-footedly adv. flat-footedness n.

For further exploring for "flat-footed" in Webster Dictionary Online


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