bootless
adjective
- to no purpose, without success, unavailing/useless/unprofitable
Wiktionary
adj
Etymology: From Middle English boteles, botles, from Old English bōtlēas; equivalent to boot (“profit; use; behoof”) + -less. Doublet of botleas.
- Profitless; pointless; unavailing.
“I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.”
“When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state / And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries”