Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bootless"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bootless \Boot"less\, a. [From {Boot} profit.]
Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or
success. --Chaucer.
I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. --Shak.
-- {Boot"less*ly}, adv. -- {Boot"less*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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