Definition of "soft-footed" [soft-footed]

• Sound of quiet gentle steps (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "So it was, exercising faculties that were no longer necessary, but that were still alive in him and clamorous for exercise, he followed the long-since passed wood-rat with all the soft-footed crouching craft of the meat-pursuer and with utmost fineness of reading the scent."
• "Then he stole across the tiny meadow, pausing once and again to listen, and faded away out of the cãnon like a wraith, soft-footed and without sound."
• "He soft-footed across the corridor, Serri at his back."