English
Adjective
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- literally without boots
- figurative profitless; pointless
Quotations
profitless
1592–1609, When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state / And trouble deal heaven with my bootless cries — William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXIX
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