Complete Definition of "bootless"

English

Adjective
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  1. literally without boots
  2. 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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