bootlessness
English edit
Etymology edit
bootless + -ness; see boot (“profit”).
Noun edit
bootlessness (uncountable)
- (archaic) The quality of being unavailing or unprofitable.
- The state of being bootless (without boots)
References edit
- “bootless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.