bootless
without result, gain, or advantage; unavailing; useless.
Origin of bootless
1Other words from bootless
- boot·less·ly, adverb
- boot·less·ness, noun
Words Nearby bootless
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How to use bootless in a sentence
The Democrats sensibly blamed the feckless, bootless Bush administration for the collapse of the markets.
A bootless voyage they were making, since the fair had been abruptly broken up at its outset.
Michael Strogoff | Jules VerneWe scarcely dared to whisper, or to tip-toe across the workshop on bootless feet.
Eastern Nights - and Flights | Alan Bottbootless, hatless, and coatless men often dashed to assembly sounded by the “thump, thump of the big drums.”
Manasses (Bull Run) National Battlefield Park-Virginia | Francis F. WilshinMany slips and falls had they on the frozen ice and slippery roads; yet was it all but a bootless chace.
A Legend of Reading Abbey | Charles MacFarlane
How success in that enterprise might have suggested or shaped a further course of aggression, it is now bootless to conjecture.
The Felon's Track | Michael Doheny
British Dictionary definitions for bootless
/ (ˈbuːtlɪs) /
of little or no use; vain; fruitless: a bootless search
Origin of bootless
1Derived forms of bootless
- bootlessly, adverb
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