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Bootless vs Feckless - What's the difference?

bootless | feckless |

As adjectives the difference between bootless and feckless

is that bootless is without boots or bootless can be profitless; pointless; unavailing while feckless is lacking purpose.

bootless

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(-)
  • without boots

    • Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • profitless; pointless; unavailing
  • * 1592–1609 , , 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

    feckless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lacking purpose.
  • * 2005 , Canberra Times , September 10
    • It is the beauty of great games when they are played at their highest level and the extraordinary thing now is that we do not have to trawl back through all the years of your inexorable progress from feckless beach boy to master sportsman."
  • Without skill, ineffective, incompetent.
  • (UK) Lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way.
  • (British, archaic) Lacking vitality.

    • Synonyms

    * futile, hopeless, ineffective, ineffectual, feeble, meaningless, useless * unpurposed, worthless, aimless, careless, reckless, irresponsible

    Antonyms

    * effective, efficient, meaningful, useful * purposeful, careful, responsible

    Related terms

    * fecklessly * fecklessness

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