Not wearing shoes: barefoot: noting a human being. Not having shoes, as a horse: noting a young horse never shod, or one from which the shoes have been taken or dropped.
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adj. (used of certain religious orders) barefoot or wearing only sandals
adj. not shod
Word Usage
"We could wind up with a country where nothing is manufactured but guns, and we'll be standing around in tattered loincloths, freezing and unshod next to our rusting out-of-gas SUV's clutching our empty black rifles."