heavy-footed

1. 1.

   (of movement) lacking ease or lightness

   “his tired heavy-footed walk”

   Antonymslight-footed

   Similarheavy

Questions about heavy-footed

What does heavy-footed mean?

heavy-footed means "(of movement) lacking ease or lightness".

How many syllables are in heavy-footed?

heavy-footed has 5 syllables: he-a-vy--foo-ted. The stress falls on "vy-".

What is the opposite of heavy-footed?

The recorded antonyms are light-footed.

Is heavy-footed a common word?

heavy-footed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.