[每日] footless (a) 無根據的
Word of the Day (Wednesday November 5, 2008)
footless \FOOT-lihs\, adjective:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/a8531
1. without a foot or feet
2. figuratively, without support; not substantial
3. inept, awkward
The argument of each league that it has the best team in the land
is more footless than most such controversies, since the strongest
teams play on courts of different sizes under rules differently
interpreted.
-- Basketball: Midseason, Time, February 18, 1930
Alvarez thinks it fairly certain that the patient is wearing
herself out with footless worry.
-- Hints for Busy Doctors, Time, August 15, 1939
There is occurring in international circles here a speculation,
which may admittedly be footless, that the European Common Market
may fly apart before the issue of British admission ever has to be
resolved.
-- Frederic W. Collins, Economic Echoes, Christian Science Monitor,
October 19, 1957
by 1398, from "foot" and "-less"
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