underfoot

Meanings

Adjective

• Situated under one's foot or feet.
• In the way; placed so as to obstruct or hinder.
• Downtrodden; abject.

Adverb

• Under one's foot or feet.
• In the way; situated so as to obstruct or hinder.

Noun

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

Verb

• To provide a footing beneath; to shore up or underpin.
• To assign a column summary that is less than the sum of all the entries in that column.

Origin

• under- + foot