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bootless

A ไม่ มีประโยชน์  futile fruitless successful profitable

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BOOTLESS

a.[from boot. ] Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success.

 

BOOTLESSLY

adv. Without use or profit.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BOOTLESS

Boot "less, a. Etym: [From Boot profit. ]

 

Defn: Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success. Chaucer. I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. Shak. -- Boot "less *ly, adv. -- Boot "less *ness, n.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

bootless

boot less |ˈbo͞otlis ˈbutləs | ▶adjective archaic (of a task or undertaking ) ineffectual; useless: words at this pass were vain and bootless. ORIGIN Old English bōtlēas ‘not able to be compensated for by payment ’ (see boot 2, -less ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

bootless

boot |less |ˈbuːtlɪs | ▶adjective archaic (of a task or undertaking ) ineffectual; useless: remonstrating with him seems ever to have been a bootless task. ORIGIN Old English bōtlēas ‘not able to be compensated for by payment ’ (see boot 2, -less ).

 

Oxford Thesaurus

bootless

bootless adjective archaic remonstrating with him seems to have been a bootless task. See ineffective (sense 1 ).

 

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