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afoot
[uh-foot] 
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afoot
[uh-foot]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | traveling by foot |
| Synonyms: | hiking, on foot, walking |
| Main Entry: | current |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contemporary; common |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accustomed, afoot, circulating, common knowledge, customary, cutting-edge, doing, existent, extant, fad, fashionable, general, going around, hot*, in, in circulation, in progress, in the mainstream, in the news, in use, in vogue, instant, leading-edge, mod, modern, now*, on front burner, ongoing, popular, present, present-day, prevailing, prevalent, rampant, regnant, rife, ruling, state-of-the-art, swinging, topical, trendy, up-to-date, widespread |
| Antonyms: | antiquated, old, old-fashioned, past, uncommon, uncontemporary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | itinerant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | roaming |
| Synonyms: | afoot, ambulant, ambulatory, floating, gypsy, journeying, migratory, moving, nomadic, on foot, peripatetic, ranging, riding the rails, roving, shifting, travelling, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, wayfaring |
| Antonyms: | permanent, settled |
| Main Entry: | underway |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in motion |
| Synonyms: | advancing, afoot, begun, commenced, in progress, initiated, moving, ongoing, started, undertaken |
| Antonyms: | halted, stopped |
| Main Entry: | walking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | on foot |
| Synonyms: | afoot, hiking, marching, promenading, rambling, sauntering, strolling, trekking, wayfaring |
| Antonyms: | running |
| Main Entry: | astir |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | moving |
| Synonyms: | about, active, afoot, alert, awake, roused |
| Main Entry: | walking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | on foot |
| Synonyms: | afoot, ambulate, ambulatory, digitigrade, hiking, marching, plantigrade, promenading, roaming, strolling, strutting, wandering |
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