Adjective: footloose
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more footloose |
| Superlative | most footloose |
Sample Sentences
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He was footloose in his youth.
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Because we often imagine that immigrants are constantly on the move, footloose, able to change course at any moment. [2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 465:]
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[…] They are footloose but also desperate, squeezed by rising inequality and a frayed safety net. [2021 February 18, A. O. Scott, “‘Nomadland’ Review: The Unsettled Americans”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
Adjectives inflected like footloose
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From foot + loose.