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flat-footed

Adjective

flat-foot=ed

WORDNET DICTIONARY

flat-footed(s = adj.all) Array - with feet flat on the ground; not tiptoe; Array
flat-footed(s = adj.all) Array - unprepared and unable to react quickly; "the new product caught their competitors flat-footed"
flat-footed(s = adj.all) Array - having broad flat feet that usually turn outward; "a slow flat-footed walk"
flat-footed(s = adj.all) Array - without reservation; "a flat-footed refusal"

flat-footed, a.

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.

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.

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