surefooted

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

adjective not liable to stumble or fall
adjective not liable to error in judgment or action; - Walter Lippman; - Michiko Kakutani

From sure + footed.

So Brennus told off the most surefooted mountaineers he could find, and at night, two and two, they crept up the crag, so silently that no alarm was given, till just as they came to the top, some geese that were kept as sacred to Juno, and for that reason had been spared in spite of the scarcity, began to scream and cackle, and thus brought to the spot a brave officer called Marcus Manlius, who found two Gauls in the act of setting foot on the level ground on the top. — Young Folks' History of Rome, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

sure-footed, footsure

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