Bootless vs Frivolous - What's the difference?
bootless | frivolous | Related terms |
without boots
profitless; pointless; unavailing
* 1592–1609 , , Sonnet XXIX
Silly, especially at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate manner.
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Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight.
In litigation, a lawsuit filed by a party who is aware the claim is without merit and has no reasonable prospect of success because of a lack of supporting legal or factual basis.
Bootless is a related term of frivolous.
As adjectives the difference between bootless and frivolous
is that bootless is without boots or bootless can be profitless; pointless; unavailing while frivolous is silly, especially at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate manner.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 * bootlessnessfrivolous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- One of the major cost drivers in the delivery of health care are these junk and frivolous lawsuits.
