'Bootless' definitions:
Definition of 'bootless'
From: WordNet
adjective
Unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt" [syn: bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain]
Definition of 'Bootless'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'bootless'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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