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Stockingless vs Barefoot - What's the difference?

stockingless | barefoot |

As adjectives the difference between stockingless and barefoot

is that stockingless is not wearing stockings while barefoot is wearing nothing on the feet.

As an adverb barefoot is

wearing nothing on the feet.

stockingless

English

Adjective

(-)
  • not wearing stockings
  • *
  • Mrs Flintwinch crossed the hall, feeling its pavement cold to her stockingless feet, and peeped in between the rusty hinges on the door, which stood a little open.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1901, author=Miles Franklin, title=My Brilliant Career, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Her tremendous, flabby, stockingless ankles bulged over her unlaced hobnailed boots; her dress was torn and unbuttoned at the throat, displaying one of the dirtiest necks I have seen. }}

    Synonyms

    *unstockinged

    barefoot

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Wearing nothing on the feet.
  • After removing their shoes, socks and sandals at the doorway, the kids were barefoot .
  • (colloquial, of a vehicle on an icy road) not using snow chains.
  • Synonyms

    * barefooted, discalced, shoeless, unshod, unshoed

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Wearing nothing on the feet.
  • She likes to go barefoot in the summertime.

    Derived terms

    * barefooting * the shoemaker's children go barefoot