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21Bootlessness — 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] {Boot less*ly}, adv. {Boot less*ness}, n.… …
22futile — futile, vain, fruitless, bootless, abortive all denote barren of result. Futile and vain parallel each other only when they imply failure to realize an immediate aim {it was equally in vain, and he soon wearied of his futile vigilance Stevenson}… …
23Sonnet 29 — Sonnet|29 When, in disgrace with fortune and men s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like… …
24futile — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. ineffectual, vain, idle, useless. See uselessness, hopelessness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [To no purpose] Syn. vain, unavailing, useless, in vain, fruitless, hopeless, impractical, worthless,… …
25unavailing — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. useless, vain, futile; ineffectual, bootless. See uselessness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. pointless, without results, fruitless; see futile 1 , useless 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. futile …
26unprofitable — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. profitless, unbeneficial, unproductive; useless, futile, bootless, fruitless; costly, expensive; unwise, inexpedient. See uselessness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Producing but little financial… …
27unsuccessful — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unprosperous, unfortunate, unavailing, unproductive. See failure. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. defeated, disappointed, frustrated, nonsuited, abortive, aborted, disastrous, unprosperous, unproductive …
28vain — 1 Vain, nugatory, otiose, idle, empty, hollow are comparable when they mean devoid of worth or significance. Something vain (see also FUTILE) is devoid of all value, either absolutely because worthless, superfluous, or unprofitable or relatively… …
29Bene — Be ne, n. [AS. b[=e]n.] A prayer; boon. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] What is good for a bootless bene ? Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] || …
30Boteless — Bote less, a. Unavailing; in vain. See {Bootless}. [1913 Webster] …
