bootless Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite unproductive of success
    fruitless; sleeveless; vain; futile.
    • a fruitless search
    • futile years after her artistic peak
    • a sleeveless errand
    • a vain attempt

WordNet

Boot"less adjective
Etymology
From Boot profit.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913