Bootless

boot + -less

Full definition of bootless

Adjective

1. without boots

boot("profit") + -less

Adjective

1. profitless; pointless; unavailing
• 1592–1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXIXWhen, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
  I all alone beweep my outcast state
  And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries

Synonyms

• fruitless

Derived terms

• bootlessly
• bootlessness