flatfooted

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of an animal: having feet which are naturally flat; (specifically) of a horse: having hoofs with soles close to the ground.

   “He claimed that Jews walk flatfooted like a camel—including me.”

2. sıfat Of a person: having the physical condition of flat feet (“a condition where the soles of the feet are in full contact with the ground, either because the arches have collapsed or because they never developed”).

   “The figure came up and squatted flatfooted on his haunches next to Patsy. In the dim glow of starlight and streetlight he saw a wrinkled face and a silvery goatee.”

3. sıfat Blunt and unsubtle; lacking finesse; clumsy.

   “This flatfooted sketch of how experience provides us with reasons has two nodes.”

4. sıfat Unprepared, unready.

   “To those who are younger, perhaps still building a career, I say to you, plan for it! No one should be caught flatfooted by the lengthening of middle age”

5. sıfat Direct, downright, straightforward; also, holding firmly to and maintaining a decision; standing one's ground.
6. fiil simple past and past participle of flatfoot (Alternative form of flat-footed).