(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.