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Webster 1913 Edition
Bootless
Boot′less
,Adj.
[From
Boot
profit.] Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success.
Chaucer.
I’ll follow him no more with
– bootless
prayers. Shakespeare
Boot′less-ly
, adv.
Boot′less-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bootless
BOOT'LESS
,Adj.
Definition 2024
bootless
bootless
English
Adjective
bootless (not comparable)
- without boots
Etymology 2
Adjective
bootless (comparative more bootless, superlative most bootless)
- profitless; pointless; unavailing
- 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
- 1592–1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXIX