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otiose
adjective
(o-ti-ose)
serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
Synonyms:
pointless
,
purposeless
,
senseless
,
superfluous
,
wasted
,
Examples:
Otiose lines in a play.
otiose
adjective
(o-ti-ose)
producing no result or effect
Synonyms:
futile
,
ineffectual
,
meaningless
,
unavailing
,
Examples:
An otiose undertaking.
otiose
adjective
(o-ti-ose)
disinclined to work or exertion
Synonyms:
faineant
,
indolent
,
lazy
,
slothful
, work-shy,
Words Related to
otiose
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superfluous
,
pointless
,
useless
,
ineffectual
,
unavailing
,
futile
,
worthless
,
slothful
,
indolent
,
lazy
,
wasted
,
idle
,
faineant
,
work-shy
,
nugatory
,
tautological
,
nonsensical
,
fatuous
,
vacuous
,
purposeless
,
irrelevant
,
jejune
,
gratuitous
,
meretricious
,
risible
,
overdetermined
,
unmusical
,
prolix
,
inapt
,
factitious
,
pythonesque
,
puerile
,
ineloquent
,
hortatory
,
grandiloquent
,
sophistic
,
contentless
,
delusory
,
delusive
,
onanistic
,
purblind
,
accusative
,
justificatory
,
incomprehensive
,
captious
,
incommunicable
,
unexceptionable
,
unamusing
,
egoistical
,
ungifted
,
imbecilic
,
pantomimic
,
ahistorical
,
specious
,
banal
,
inefficacious
,
swiftian
,
unserious
,
anachronistic
,
platitudinous
,
unpoetic
,
percipient
,
syllogistic
,
beggarly
,
pedantic
,
procrustean
,
ludic
,
opprobrious
,
substanceless
,
hackneyed
,
denotative
,
farcical
,
tuneless
,
shavian
,
reductive
,
adverbial
,
apposite
,
rhythmless
,
connotative
,
denunciatory
,
vainglorious
,
infelicitous
,
treasonable
,
irenic
,
hubristic
,
bathetic
,
sophistical
,
fallacious
,
unobjectionable
,
absurd
,
undebatable
,
unpolitical
,
overfamiliar
,
unimprovable
,
implausible
,
mealymouthed
,
perspicuous
,
whiggish
,
ideational
,
orotund
,
otiose
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