1. Bootless (comparative more Bootless, superlative most Bootless) Profitless; pointless; unavailing

2. Even worse, these “profitless talkers” advocated “Jewish fables” and commandments not found in the Law of Moses.

3. As Paul said, at times “it is necessary to shut the mouths” of “profitless talkers . . . and deceivers of the mind” who ‘subvert entire households by teaching things they ought not for the sake of dishonest gain.’