What's the difference between bootless and profitless?

Bootless


Definition:

  • (a.) Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Elkjær was running down the left wing with the ball when he lost his right boot; he kept running and ended up shooting home with his bootless right foot.
  • (2) But it would be remiss of us to forget the Indian national team, who qualified for the 1950 World Cup finals with their entire team going bootless.

Profitless


Definition:

  • (a.) Without profit; unprofitable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No account has ever been rendered by either Labour or Conservative governments for their disastrous and profitless interventions.
  • (2) Facebook itself has driven up the bubble, according to some, by spending $1bn on Instagram, a profitless photo-sharing application.
  • (3) If Monday’s initial public offering (IPO) goes badly, a lot of other profitless unicorns will start feeling the chill.
  • (4) "There's enough of what Milan Kundera terms 'Kafkaology' about as it is: seldom has a writer been as profitlessly anatomised – and that largely as a function of writings other than his fiction – as Kafka.

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