BOOTLESS Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

bootless

adjective

ˈbüt-ləs

Definition of bootless

as in unsuccessful

producing no results a bootless effort to get tickets to the sold-out game

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Adjective

Police said Reyes did not provide any form of identification, and attempts to identify him were unsuccessful.

— Rafael Escalera Montoto, Arkansas Online, 23 Aug. 2026
Attempts by The Associated Press to determine who their defense attorneys were to request comment were unsuccessful.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of unsuccessful

Adjective

The receiving corps is still a question mark, and depending solely on De’Von Achane seems futile.

— Gladys Louise Tyler, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
Named Wilbur by the hive mind of social media, the animal blew up online after resident Jamaal Harrison posted a video to TikTok on Saturday showing his futile attempts to catch it on an e-bike.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of futile

Adjective

Garcia and Vargas Bustamante both agreed that not all of the health advice available on social media is useless, predatory or incorrect.

— Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
If an agent queries a legacy database to decide whether to trigger an outreach sequence or prioritize an account, a flat list of static attributes is fundamentally useless to its reasoning engine.

— Filip Popovic, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of useless

Adjective

On Saturday, Durant reaffirmed his stance that the question of his and other superstars’ effort was an unavailing narrative to explore every February.

— Devon Henderson, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
The position advanced by the states is legally unavailing as a matter of longstanding and well-established law.

— WSJ, WSJ, 25 July 2018

Definition of unavailing

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