About The Word Otiose
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Otiose
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What's The Definition Of Otiose?
[adj] disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"
[adj] serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words" [adj] producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt" Synonyms | Synonyms for Otiose: faineant | futile | idle | indolent | ineffectual | lazy | pointless | slothful | superfluous | unavailing | useless | wasted | work-shy | worthless Related Terms | Find terms related to Otiose: abortive | airy | asinine | at leisure | at liberty | at loose ends | available | barren | bootless | catchpenny | disengaged | empty | fallow | fatuous | flimsy | foolish | free | fribble | fribbling | frivolous | frothy | fruitless | functionless | futile | gainless | idle | in disrepair | inane | inapplicable | inoperable | inoperative | jobless | leisure | leisured | light | lumpen | nonfunctional | nonremunerative | nonutilitarian | nugacious | nugatory | off | off duty | off work | out of employ | out of harness | out of order | out of whack | out of work | profitless | rewardless | shallow | silly | slender | slight | sterile | superficial | trifling | trite | trivial | unconducive | unemployable | unemployed | unfit | unhelpful | unoccupied | unproductive | unprofitable | unremunerative | unrewarding | unsuitable | unusable | unworkable | vacuous | vain | vapid | windy See Also | Otiose In Webster's Dictionary \O"ti*ose`\, a. [L. otiosus, fr. otium ease.]
Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle.
``Otiose assent.'' --Paley.
The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and
un?rofitable cessation from even good deeds which they
would enforce. --Alford.
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