bootlessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

bootless (not comparable)

1. Without boots.

語源 2

From Middle English boteles, botles, from 古期英語 bōtlēas; equivalent to boot (“profit; use; behoof”) +‎ -less. Doublet of botleas.

別の表記

• boteless

形容詞

bootless (comparative more bootless, superlative most bootless)

1. Profitless; pointless; unavailing.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 29”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634:

     When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state / And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries

   • 1844, Sir John William Kaye, Peregrine Pultuney: or, Life in India, page 251:

     The lieutenant tried the handle again, but still his efforts were quite bootless. He pushed and kicked, but the door was a strong one.

同意語

• fruitless

派生語

• bootlessly
• bootlessness