bootless

  • 1Bootless — 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. [1913… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 2bootless — index futile, otiose, unavailing Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 3bootless — fruitless, *futile, vain, abortive Analogous words: idle, empty, hollow, nugatory, *vain, otiose Contrasted words: *beneficial, advantageous, profitable …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 4bootless — [bo͞ot′lis] adj. [ BOOT2 + LESS] without benefit; useless bootlessly adv. bootlessness n …

    English World dictionary

  • 5bootless — {{11}}bootless (1) lacking boots, late 14c., from BOOT (Cf. boot) (n.1) + LESS (Cf. less). {{12}}bootless (2) late O.E. botleas unpardonable, not to be atoned for, without help or remedy, from BOOT (Cf …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 6bootless — adjective Etymology: 1boot Date: 1559 useless, unprofitable < a bootless attempt > • bootlessly adverb • bootlessness noun …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 7bootless — adjective a) without boots When, in disgrace with fortune and mens eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state / And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries b) profitless; pointless; unavailing Syn: fruitless …

    Wiktionary

  • 8Bootless Inlet — is a body of water in southeastern Papua New Guinea, at coord|9.5044444|S|147.2627778|E|, south of Port Moresby. External links * [http://www.pbase.com/fmanseau/plongefv Photos from Bootless Bay] …

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  • 9bootless — bootlessly, adv. bootlessness, n. /booht lis/, adj. without result, gain, or advantage; unavailing; useless. [bef. 1000; ME bot(e)les, OE botleas unpardonable. See BOOT2, LESS] * * * …

    Universalium

  • 10bootless — Synonyms and related words: abortive, barren, counterproductive, effete, empty, etiolated, failed, failing, fatuitous, fatuous, feckless, fruitless, frustrating, futile, gainless, inadequate, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious,&#8230; …

    Moby Thesaurus