Bootless vs Unprofitable - What's the difference?
bootless | unprofitable | Related terms |
without boots
profitless; pointless; unavailing
* 1592–1609 , , Sonnet XXIX
Not making a profit.
As adjectives the difference between bootless and unprofitable
is that bootless is without boots while unprofitable is not making a profit.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 * bootlessnessunprofitable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Being a professional poet is a nice job, albeit unprofitable .