What's the difference between bootless and rootless?
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.
Rootless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of roots.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Cable said he had accidentally compared her to the wrong murderous dictator: “I got my literary reference wrong – I think it was Stalin who talked about ‘rootless cosmopolitans’.
(2) Rootless and ruled by the landlord class – the future for young adults Read more As a backbench all-party committee of MPs warned that housing policy was “a mess”, the Resolution Foundation said those aged 18 to 34 faced the prospect of being permanent renters and that home ownership was increasingly becoming the preserve of the well-off and the elderly.
(3) While waiting families often live a rootless existence, subject to frequent moves between different properties and locations, cut off from vital support networks.
(4) One of the rough ways that social geographers have of classifying lives led in Britain is to ask how "rooted" or "rootless" they are.
(5) It has been cast as representative of the rootlessness of New Labour and, by architecture critic Owen Hatherley , as the doomed apotheosis of the fossil-fuel society.
(6) It promotes the ideal worker as a rootless person with no attachment to place or community, and with limited political rights; whose citizenship resides in their ability to work alone.
(7) It portrays LA as a place where criminals are rootless, almost weightless.
(8) Rootless and ruled by the landlord class – the future for young adults Read more The NUT survey found that most teachers live within 45 minutes of work, suggesting that if forced to move out they would look for jobs close to home rather than commuting in.
(9) Hypotheses of tooth emergence are viewed in the light of these rootless eruptions.
(10) Salinger's great, obsessive theme was the moral rootlessness of contemporary American materialism and its corrosive effect upon precocious, highly sensitive children and adolescents whose religious yearnings were both esoteric (eastern, mystic) and sentimental (narcissistic, naively self-regarding).
(11) Eruption of rootless mandibular premolars and other dental defects in a girl suffering from congenital kidney disease are described.
(12) The world of listless, rootless youth, casual acts of sex and random acts of violence in south London parks were very much part of the landscape as I reached my 20th birthday in 1986.
(13) Is the Tory party becoming the vehicle for a rootless, amoral global financial community with little loyalty to country – or even to great business?
(14) Clinical and histologic examination revealed that the tooth was rootless, incompletely mineralized, and acutely inflamed.
(15) They have no country of their own, so we regard them as rootless.
(16) Global news channels have their own parallel world of timeless, rootless programmes that work as well at 2am in an airport as at 2pm in a jet-lagged hotel suite.
(17) It is suggested that the flagellar rootless may function in controlling the patterning and the direction of cytoplasmic microtubule assembly.
(18) Both companies are already the strangely rootless products of previous mergers.
(19) Tarantino’s anti-heroes were ideal models for upcoming mafiosi because they were drawn from the same timeless, rootless renegades.
(20) Here is its point: the creation of the bored, cynical, rootless Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin.