Rootless vs Bootless - What's the difference?
rootless | bootless |
Of a plant or another thing, having no roots.
Being a wanderer; having no ties to a particular locale.
without boots
profitless; pointless; unavailing
* 1592–1609 , , Sonnet XXIX
As adjectives the difference between rootless and bootless
is that rootless is of a plant or another thing, having no roots while bootless is without boots.rootless
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Adjective
(head)bootless
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Etymology 1
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(-)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