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bootless |
2 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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