shoeless

English

Etymology

From Middle English sholes, scholes, equivalent to shoe +‎ -less. Compare Dutch schoenloos (“shoeless”), German schuhlos (“shoeless”), Old Norse skólaus (“shoeless”).

Adjective

shoeless (not comparable)

a shoeless woman

1. Without shoes; not wearing shoes

   He ran shoeless from the burning house.

   • c. 1681, Lancelot Addison, The Moores baffled: being a discourse concerning Tanger:

     The ground about was thick sown with caltrops, which very much incommoded the shoeless Moors.

Synonyms

• barefoot, barefooted, unshod, unshoed

Derived terms

• shoelessly
• shoelessness

Translations

without shoes

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沒有鞋子／没有鞋子 (méiyǒu xiézi)

• Esperanto: senŝua
• Finnish: kengätön (fi)
• Greek: απαπούτσωτος (el) (apapoútsotos)
• Icelandic: á sokkaleistunum
• Spanish: descalzo (es)
• Swedish: skolös, oskodd (sv), barfota (sv)

See also

• barefoot
• discalced

Anagrams

• essholes, hoseless