bootless

bootless
    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}]
    

Bootless \Boot"less\, a. [From {Boot} profit.]
   Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or
   success. --Chaucer.
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         I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. --Shak.
   [1913 Webster] -- {Boot"less*ly}, adv. -- {Boot"less*ness},
   n.
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52 Moby Thesaurus words for "bootless":
      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