Rootless vs Bootless - What's the difference?

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.

(head)

Of a plant or another thing, having no roots.

Being a wanderer; having no ties to a particular locale.

(-)

without boots

(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

* fruitless

* bootlessly * bootlessness