Bootless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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