two-footed

Adjective

Meaning

having two feet

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

bipedal biped human personal animal mortal ambidextrous switch-hitting switch-hitter double feet couple of feet dual-footed two-folded feet twofold feet double footed
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Antonyms

quadrupedal quadruped

Examples

We will defend our children. If the hand of any two-footed animal is raised against them, that hand will be cut off, and our children will grow up in joy in the homes of their parents. Menachem Begin

Man is a two-footed reasoning animal. Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

Aldrin joined him on the surface and tested methods for moving around, including two-footed kangaroo hops. Source: Internet

'I can't in my 27 years of being a cop understand why anybody would jump two-footed onto someone's head from a six-foot playground, let alone scratch a game of noughts and crosses.' Source: Internet

History Aristotle main One of Aristotle ’s early interests lay in the classification of the natural world, how for example the genus "animal" could be first divided into "two-footed animal" and then into "wingless, two-footed animal". Source: Internet

But "man" means "two-footed animal" (for example), and so if anything is a man, it is necessary (by virtue of the meaning of "man") that it must be a two-footed animal, and so it is impossible at the same time for it not to be a two-footed animal. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

two-fold symmetry two-folded feet two-foot two-for-a-cent two-for-a-penny two-for-one stock split