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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. unproductive of success;
- Example: "a fruitless search"
- Example: "futile years after her artistic peak"
- Example: "a sleeveless errand"
- Example: "a vain attempt"
[syn: bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bootless \Boot"less\, a. [From Boot profit.]
   Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or
   success. --Chaucer.
   [1913 Webster]

         I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. --Shak.
   [1913 Webster] -- Boot"less*ly, adv. -- Boot"less*ness,
   n.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bootless
    adj 1: unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile
           years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a
           vain attempt" [syn: bootless, fruitless, futile,
           sleeveless, vain]