Bootless vs Abortive - What's the difference?
bootless | abortive | Related terms |
without boots
profitless; pointless; unavailing
* 1592–1609 , , Sonnet XXIX
(obsolete) Produced by abortion; born prematurely.
Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful.
* 1799 edition, , Paradise Lost :
* (rfdate),
(biology) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile.
(medicine, rare, attributive) Causing abortion; abortifacient
* (Parr)
(medicine) Cutting short; acting to halt or slow the progress (of a disease).
Made from the skin of a still-born animal.
(obsolete) That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
* "Thou elvish-mark'd, abortive , rooting hog!" - Shakespeare, Richard III, I-iii
(obsolete) A fruitless effort or issue.
(obsolete) A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion, abortifacient.
Bootless is a related term of abortive.
As adjectives the difference between bootless and abortive
is that bootless is without boots or bootless can be profitless; pointless; unavailing while abortive is (obsolete) produced by abortion; born prematurely .As a noun abortive is
(obsolete) that which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion .As a verb abortive is
(obsolete) to cause an abortion; to render without fruit .bootless
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(-)Etymology 2
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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
* fruitlessDerived terms
* bootlessly * bootlessnessabortive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an abortive child
- an abortive attempt
- and with utter loss of being
- Threatens him, plung'd in that abortive gulf.
- An abortive enterprise.
- an abortive organ
- an abortive stamen
- an abortive ovule
- abortive medicines
- abortive treatment of typhoid fever
- abortive vellum