Bootless \Boot"less\, a. [From Boot profit.]
Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or
success. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. --Shak.
[1913 Webster] --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bootless
adj : unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years
after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a
vain attempt" [syn: fruitless, futile, sleeveless,
vain]
WordNet (r) 2.0
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "bootless":
abortive, barren, counterproductive, effete, empty, etiolated,
failed, failing, fatuitous, fatuous, feckless, fruitless,
frustrating, futile, gainless, inadequate, inane, ineffective,
ineffectual, inefficacious, inoperative, invalid, lame, manque,
miscarried, miscarrying, nonremunerative, nugacious, nugatory,
of no effect, of no force, otiose, pointless, profitless,
purposeless, rewardless, sterile, stickit, stillborn, successless,
unavailable, unavailing, unfortunate, unproductive, unprofitable,
unremunerative, unrewarding, unsuccessful, useless, vain, wasteful,
worthless
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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