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bootless

adj

Etymology

From Middle English boteles, botles, from Old English bōtlēas; equivalent to boot (“profit; use; behoof”) + -less. Doublet of botleas.

  1. inherited from bōtlēas
  2. inherited from boteles

Definitions

  1. Without boots.

  2. Profitless

    Profitless; pointless; unavailing.

    • I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.
    • When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state / And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA