Definitions for bootless

bootless boot·less

Spelling: [boot-lis]
IPA: /ˈbut lɪs/

Bootless is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 221 anagrams from letters in bootless (beloosst).

Definitions for bootless

adjective

  1. without result, gain, or advantage; unavailing; useless.

Origin of bootless

before 1000; Middle English bot(e)les, Old English bōtlēas unpardonable. See boot2, -less

Examples for bootless

Ah, luckless speech, and bootless boast, for which he paid full dear!

The bootless feet of the Texan had left no mark on the buffalo grass.

And he recalled his own bootless wickedness and underhand intrigues.

"But he's gone on a bootless errand, I tell ye," continued Mrs. Garth.

I had been bootless, when I started; but my feet were now bare and bleeding.

The matter is such a commonplace of history that it is bootless to labour it here.

"'Tis possible—nay, probable—that this is a bootless quest," said I dejectedly.

He was bootless and a great toe protruded from a hole in the point of his sock.

I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.Merchant of Venice.

The Democrats sensibly blamed the feckless, bootless Bush administration for the collapse of the markets.

Word Value for bootless
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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