afoot
/əˈfʊt
/adverb & adjective
1In preparation or progress; happening or beginning to happen: [as predicative adjective]: plans are afoot for a festival...
- Preparations are afoot, measurements are made, ground is staked out.
- But plans are already afoot to ensure that the festival is revitalised next year.
- The other good news is that there are plans afoot for there to be a free festival next year!
Synonyms
going on, happening, around, about, abroad, circulating, current, stirring, in circulation, at large, going about, in the air, in the wind;
brewing, looming, on the way, in the offing, on the horizon
informal on the go, doing the rounds, on the cards, in the pipeline
literary astir
2chiefly North American On foot: [as adverb]: they were forced to go afoot...
- But to the younger generation, a winter holiday means action- and down through the 'Swamp hollow' and over the hill road they go, afoot or in sleighs, through the drifting snow, to a barn dance at the Centre.
- I suppose from the looks of things that I shall have to go afoot the rest of the way.
- She went afoot all the way to our house. I founded her sleeping on the grass in the morning.
