bootless

adjective

ˈbüt-ləs How to pronounce bootless (audio)
Definition of bootlessnext
as in unsuccessful
producing no results a bootless effort to get tickets to the sold-out game

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bootless
  1. unsuccessful
  2. futile
  3. useless
  4. unavailing
Adjective
  • Trump attempted one last time to get a judge to block the report but was unsuccessful, NPR's Carrie Johnson tells Up First.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 14 Jan. 2025
  • An attempt was made to cut a lock to uniform storage, however was unsuccessful.
    City News Service, Orange County Register, 12 Jan. 2025
Definition of unsuccessful
Adjective
  • In my experience, even attempting to get a price estimate beforehand is often futile.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Unnecessary pesticides are costly and often futile, and hey may kill beneficial insects and plants.
    Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of futile
Adjective
  • Without that essential training to help surmount powerful systemic barriers, the kit would have been useless—and in that sense, the job is still woefully unfinished.
    Sheila McClear, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Esoteric knowledge of the parks, essentially useless anywhere else, is suddenly incredibly useful.
    Darryn King, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of useless
Adjective
  • The position advanced by the states is legally unavailing as a matter of longstanding and well-established law.
    WSJ, WSJ, 25 July 2018
  • Efforts to aid him with lifeboats, three of which were ineffectually trying to breast the heavy sea, were unavailing, while a lifeline, held by a number of rescuers, was carried far out into the surf by a number of swimmers.
    sandiegouniontribune.com, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 May 2018
Definition of unavailing
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