Bootless

Adjective

 * 1) without boots

Adjective

 * 1) profitless; pointless; unavailing
 * 2) * 1592–1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXIX
 * When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state / And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries

Synonyms

 * fruitless

Derived terms

 * bootlessly
 * bootlessness

Thesaurus
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