different between bootless vs inefficacious

bootless

English

Etymology 1

From boot +? -less.

Adjective

bootless (not comparable)

  1. Without boots.

Etymology 2

From Middle English boteles, botles, from Old English b?tl?as; equivalent to boot (profit; use; behoof) +? -less. Doublet of botleas.

Alternative forms

  • boteless

Adjective

bootless (comparative more bootless, superlative most bootless)

  1. Profitless; pointless; unavailing.
    • 1592–1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXIX:
      When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state / And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries

Synonyms

  • fruitless

Derived terms

  • bootlessly
  • bootlessness

Translations

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inefficacious

English

Etymology

in- +? efficacious

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -e???s

Adjective

inefficacious (comparative more inefficacious, superlative most inefficacious)

  1. Incapable of having the intended consequence.
  2. Not effective.

Synonyms

  • ineffective

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