Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Otiose \O"ti*ose`\, a. [L. otiosus, fr. otium ease.]
Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle. "Otiose
assent." --Paley.
[1913 Webster]
The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and
unprofitable cessation from even good deeds which they
would enforce. --Alford.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
otiose
adj 1: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being;
"otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a
pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless";
"senseless violence" [syn: {otiose}, {pointless},
{purposeless}, {senseless}, {superfluous}, {wasted}]
2: producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the
therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an
unavailing attempt" [syn: {futile}, {ineffectual}, {otiose},
{unavailing}]
3: 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"
[syn: {faineant}, {indolent}, {lazy}, {otiose}, {slothful},
{work-shy}]
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