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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BOOT'LESS, a. [from boot.] Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt" [syn: bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: ¹boot Date: 1559 useless, unprofitable <a bootless attempt> • bootlessly adverb • bootlessness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. archaic unavailing, useless. Etymology: OE botleas (as BOOT(2), LESS)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Useless, unavailing, fruitless, futile, unprofitable, profitless, valueless, worthless, ineffectual, abortive, vain, idle, without avail.

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