Synonyms for Bootless

Synonyms for "bootless" (70 found)

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Closest matches (14)

Adjective(2 words)

abortive barren counterproductive effete empty etiolated failed failing fatuitous fatuous feckless fond

Strong matches (21)

Related words (35)

nonremunerative nugacious nugatoryof no effectof no forceotiose pointless profitless purposeless rewardless sterile stickit stillborn stupid successless thankless unavailable unavailing unfortunate unproductive

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unprofitable unremunerative unrewarding unsturdy unsuccessful useless vain void wasteful worthless

Adjective(5 words)

sleeveless unavailing unshod useless vain

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

2 entries

descriptive adjectivefootwear condition

More specific

5 entries

barefootfutile effortpointless gestureunshodvain attempt

Collocations

5 entries

bootless attemptbootless effortbootless hopebootless searchbootless task

Inflections

2 entries

more bootlessmost bootless

Derivations

2 entries

bootlessly bootlessness

similar

1 entries

unproductive

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

Source: tatoeba (5793627)

Since he and I are substantially of the same opinion as to the reality of the phenomenon, it would be bootless to discuss the comparative merits of the considerations that have led us to this conclusion.

Source: tatoeba (12042333)

I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.

Source: wiktionary

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state / And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries

Source: wiktionary

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