bootless
[adjective]
Synonyms: futile, abortive, fruitless, ineffective, ineffectual, unavailable, unavailing, unproductive, useless, vain

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Related Words: frustrating, profitless, worthless

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bootless adjective¹ & adverb. ['bu:tlɪs] OE.
[from BOOT noun¹ + -LESS.]
A. adjective.
1. Of an injury: unable to be compensated by payment etc. Long obsolete exc. Hist. OE.

2. Incurable, remediless. ME-M17.

3. Unavailing, to no purpose. LME.
b. adverb. Bootlessly. Chiefly poet. LME.

■ bootlessly adverb unavailingly, unsuccessfully E17.

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bootless adjective². ['bu:tlɪs] LME.
[from BOOT noun² + -LESS.]
Without boots.

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