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bootless

bootless adjective: without boots.

Adjective (1)

bootless (not comparable)

  1. Without boots.

Adjective (2)

bootless (comparative more bootless, superlative most bootless)

  1. Profitless; pointless; unavailing.
    • I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state / And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 29”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    fruitless

bootless meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

bootless in Tamil

புதைமிதியற்ற

bootless in Urdu

بےفائدہ, بےسود

bootless in Malayalam

fruitless, in vain, futile
നിഷ്പ്രയോജനമായ, നിഷ്ഫലമായ, നിഷ്ഫല, വന്ധ്യമായ, വന്ധ്യം, വ്യർത്ഥം

Synonyms of bootless

Forms of bootless

comparativemore bootless
superlativemost bootless
alternative formboteless

Origin of bootless

From Middle English bootles, botelees; equivalent to boot + -less.

From Middle English boteles, botles, from Old English bōtlēas; equivalent to boot (“profit; use; behoof”) + -less. Doublet of botleas.

Words formed from bootless

Questions about bootless

What does bootless mean?
Bootless means without boots.
What is bootless in Tamil?
Bootless in Tamil is புதைமிதியற்ற. See Bootless meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bootless?
Bootless is an adjective.

Words near bootless in the dictionary

  1. bootleggers
  2. bootleggery
  3. bootlegging
  4. bootlegs
  5. bootles
  6. bootless
  7. bootlessly
  8. bootlessness
  9. bootlick
  10. bootlicked
  11. bootlicker

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bootless (page history and authors); bootless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bootless (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bootless (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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