Definition of "underfoot" in English

adjective

1. Situated under one's foot or feet.

2. In the way; placed so as to obstruct or hinder.

3. Downtrodden; abject.

adverb

1. Under one's foot or feet.

   • The workers were all big, burly, hard-hearted men, tromping through the marsh in their heavy boots without sparing so much as a single thought for the masses of tiny frogs they crushed underfoot.

2. In the way; situated so as to obstruct or hinder.

   • It would be easier to do a big project like that someday when we don't have a bunch of newcomers underfoot.

noun

1. A storage compartment that sits below the deck of a boat.

verb

1. (transitive) To provide a footing beneath; to shore up or underpin.

2. (accounting) To assign a column summary that is less than the sum of all the entries in that column.