barefoot adv 1: without shoes on; "he chased her barefoot across the meadow" [syn: {barefooted}, {barefoot}] adj 1: without shoes; "the barefoot boy"; "shoeless Joe Jackson" [syn: {barefoot}, {barefooted}, {shoeless}]
Barefoot \Bare"foot\ (b[^a]r"f[oo^]t), a. & adv. With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings. [1913 Webster]
Barefoot To go barefoot was a sign of great distress (Isa. 20:2, 3, 4), or of some great calamity having fallen on a person (2 Sam. 15:30).