Underfoot
adverb
Under or beneath your feet.
Be careful, there are toys underfoot.
Often appears as...
- obstacles underfoot
- ground underfoot
adverb
In the way or causing a problem or a nuisance.
The cat is always underfoot just when I'm trying to cook.
Often appears as...
- always underfoot
- constantly underfoot
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
adverb
Under or beneath your feet.
Be careful, there are toys underfoot.
Often appears as...
- obstacles underfoot
- ground underfoot
adverb
In the way or causing a problem or a nuisance.
The cat is always underfoot just when I'm trying to cook.
Often appears as...
- always underfoot
- constantly underfoot
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Presence
Indicates something is directly on the ground where you walk.
Watch your step; there's water underfoot after the spill.
Pro Tip 2/3Potential Hazard
Suggests that something on the ground could be dangerous or cause stumbling.
The hikers found the trail tricky with rocks underfoot.
Pro Tip 3/3Surface Description
Used to describe the feeling or condition of the ground's surface.
The plush carpet felt luxurious underfoot.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Presence
Indicates something is directly on the ground where you walk.
Watch your step; there's water underfoot after the spill.
Pro Tip 2/3Potential Hazard
Suggests that something on the ground could be dangerous or cause stumbling.
The hikers found the trail tricky with rocks underfoot.
Pro Tip 3/3Surface Description
Used to describe the feeling or condition of the ground's surface.
The plush carpet felt luxurious underfoot.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Presence
Indicates something is directly on the ground where you walk.
Watch your step; there's water underfoot after the spill.
Pro Tip 2/3Potential Hazard
Suggests that something on the ground could be dangerous or cause stumbling.
The hikers found the trail tricky with rocks underfoot.
Pro Tip 3/3Surface Description
Used to describe the feeling or condition of the ground's surface.
The plush carpet felt luxurious underfoot.
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Finding Baby Seals on an...
Parts of the island, including derelict buildings and underfoot conditions, may be dangerous. Oh, brilliant. That's what I like to hear. Is this the gate? I think this is the the only gate we've got. It feels like we breaking in. I promise we do have permission to be here, though.
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Mars Up Close, Part 3:...
The kinds of outcrops of rock that we've been looking at since we landed are more like ankle and knee high. And some of them are down underfoot like the mudstone that we drill. By the way, two years ago when we landed, if you said the first thing we drilled
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How to foster true...
they have a full way to engage in this change that's underfoot right now. And then I wonder, conversely, what sort of pitfalls have you seen business leaders fall into that are actually just not effective and are not supportive of efforts
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Male Polar Bear Fight...
works quietly underfoot. Every winter, sea ice starts small and delicate. Then it grows over millions of square miles. How is it possible that this freezer holds the key to our entire planet? Like a lung, sea ice breathes life
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A New Understanding of...
Or the notion that with the arrival of cities came social classes, sacred kings and rapacious oligarchs trampling everyone else underfoot. From our very first history lessons, we're taught to believe that our modern world,
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Storytellers Summit Day...
but I thought what is it and I said that's Arctic and I went to the Arctic and I that was and you just everyone just got to see genja so maybe from what you underfoot which which she just translated the Arctic it's there's
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The Japanese folktale of...
he walked through driving rain and searing sun. Over time, his devotion revealed the invisible world of spirits which exists alongside our own. He began to sense the kami, which animated the rocks underfoot,
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Wolf Pack Takes on a...
At first glance, the Arctic feels brutally devoid of life, though a select group of animals have figured out a way to thrive. But the real force here works quietly underfoot.
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The Unsung Heroes of the...
At first glance, the Arctic feels brutally devoid of life. Though a select group of animals have figured out a way to thrive. But the real force here works quietly underfoot.
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The Harp Seal's Race...
At first glance the arctic feel brutally devoid of life. Though a select group of animals have figured out a way to thrive. But the real force here works quietly underfoot.
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Finding Baby Seals on an...
Parts of the island, including derelict buildings and underfoot conditions, may be dangerous. Oh, brilliant. That's what I like to hear. Is this the gate? I think this is the the only gate we've got. It feels like we breaking in. I promise we do have permission to be here, though.
Video examples
Mars Up Close, Part 3:...
The kinds of outcrops of rock that we've been looking at since we landed are more like ankle and knee high. And some of them are down underfoot like the mudstone that we drill. By the way, two years ago when we landed, if you said the first thing we drilled
Video examples
How to foster true...
they have a full way to engage in this change that's underfoot right now. And then I wonder, conversely, what sort of pitfalls have you seen business leaders fall into that are actually just not effective and are not supportive of efforts
Video examples
Male Polar Bear Fight...
works quietly underfoot. Every winter, sea ice starts small and delicate. Then it grows over millions of square miles. How is it possible that this freezer holds the key to our entire planet? Like a lung, sea ice breathes life
Video examples
A New Understanding of...
Or the notion that with the arrival of cities came social classes, sacred kings and rapacious oligarchs trampling everyone else underfoot. From our very first history lessons, we're taught to believe that our modern world,
Video examples
Storytellers Summit Day...
but I thought what is it and I said that's Arctic and I went to the Arctic and I that was and you just everyone just got to see genja so maybe from what you underfoot which which she just translated the Arctic it's there's
Video examples
The Japanese folktale of...
he walked through driving rain and searing sun. Over time, his devotion revealed the invisible world of spirits which exists alongside our own. He began to sense the kami, which animated the rocks underfoot,
Video examples
Wolf Pack Takes on a...
At first glance, the Arctic feels brutally devoid of life, though a select group of animals have figured out a way to thrive. But the real force here works quietly underfoot.
Video examples
The Unsung Heroes of the...
At first glance, the Arctic feels brutally devoid of life. Though a select group of animals have figured out a way to thrive. But the real force here works quietly underfoot.
Video examples
The Harp Seal's Race...
At first glance the arctic feel brutally devoid of life. Though a select group of animals have figured out a way to thrive. But the real force here works quietly underfoot.
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Timothy Morton
English Philosopher
The ideal job letter starts with a brilliant light. Then we realize that this brilliant light is actually sunlight, shafts of it, pouring through trees onto a thick bed of pine needles. Soft dusty resin floats in the sun shafts, invitingly. The smell of pine and sap rises from the forest floor. A twig snaps underfoot.
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Thérèse of Lisieux
French Saint
I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the clouds and a humble grain of sand trodden underfoot by passers-by.
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Mary Pilon
American Journalist
With a smartphone in tow and a playlist humming, a runner may miss the crunch of leaves underfoot, the enthusiastic cheers of benevolent strangers, or even her own breath. And, for many runners, leaving the mobile device at home is the most liberating part of the sport.
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J. Carter Brown
American Public Servant
No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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Abdolkarim Soroush
Iranian Philosopher
If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
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C. S. Lewis
British Writer
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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Brandon Boyd
American Musician
As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.
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Jacqueline du Pre
English Musician
The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.
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Saint Augustine
Saint
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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Horace Greeley
American Editor
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
Quote examples
Timothy Morton
English Philosopher
The ideal job letter starts with a brilliant light. Then we realize that this brilliant light is actually sunlight, shafts of it, pouring through trees onto a thick bed of pine needles. Soft dusty resin floats in the sun shafts, invitingly. The smell of pine and sap rises from the forest floor. A twig snaps underfoot.
Quote examples
Thérèse of Lisieux
French Saint
I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the clouds and a humble grain of sand trodden underfoot by passers-by.
Quote examples
Mary Pilon
American Journalist
With a smartphone in tow and a playlist humming, a runner may miss the crunch of leaves underfoot, the enthusiastic cheers of benevolent strangers, or even her own breath. And, for many runners, leaving the mobile device at home is the most liberating part of the sport.
Quote examples
J. Carter Brown
American Public Servant
No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
Quote examples
Abdolkarim Soroush
Iranian Philosopher
If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
Quote examples
C. S. Lewis
British Writer
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Quote examples
Brandon Boyd
American Musician
As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.
Quote examples
Jacqueline du Pre
English Musician
The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.
Quote examples
Saint Augustine
Saint
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Quote examples
Horace Greeley
American Editor
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
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