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light-footed

adjective

variants: also light-foot

Synonyms and Antonyms of light-footed

moving easily

the light-footed cat crept silently through the house

Synonyms of light-footed

agile, featly, feline, graceful, gracile, light, lightsome, lissome (also lissom), lithe, lithesome, nimble, spry

Words Related to light-footed

acrobatic, flexible, limber, loose-jointed, pliable, pliant, supple

adroit, deft, dexterous (also dextrous), light-fingered

fleet-footed, sure-footed

athletic, balletic, coordinated

Near Antonyms of light-footed

inflexible, rigid, stiff

bungling, inept, maladroit

Antonyms of light-footed

awkward, clumsy, gawky, graceless, klutzy, lumbering, ungainly, ungraceful

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