surefooted

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Walking steadily, without stumbling

   Walking steadily, without stumbling; capable of finding good footing.

   • For many years I didn't learn to walk, because I was carried everywhere—not by my parents, who had grown frail, but by the most sure-footed of the servants.
   • Testers reported the locomotive as very surefooted and said it did not lose traction.
2. 2

   Confident and capable.

   • Her performance was described as "stunning, surefooted, breathtaking."

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