Meaning of OTIOSE
| Pronunciation: | | 'owshee`ows
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | faineant, futile, idle, indolent, ineffectual, lazy, pointless, slothful, superfluous, unavailing, useless, wasted, work-shy, worthless |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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