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Definition of Otiose
1. Adjective. Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being. "Senseless violence"
Similar to: Worthless
Derivative terms: Pointlessness, Purposelessness, Senselessness
2. Adjective. Producing no result or effect. "An unavailing attempt"
Similar to: Useless
Derivative terms: Futility, Ineffectuality, Ineffectualness
3. Adjective. Disinclined to work or exertion. "The unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"
Similar to: Idle
Derivative terms: Faineance, Indolence, Laziness, Laziness, Slothfulness
Definition of Otiose
1. a. Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle.
Definition of Otiose
1. Adjective. Resulting in no effect. ¹
2. Adjective. Reluctant to work or to exert oneself. ¹
3. Adjective. Having no reason for being (raison d’être); having no point, reason, or purpose. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Otiose
1. lazy [adj] : OTIOSELY [adv] - See also: lazy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Otiose
Literary usage of Otiose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Prose (1137-1890) by John Matthews Manly (1909)
"not the correctness or purism of the mere scholar, but a security against the
otiose, a jealous exclusion of what does not really tell towards the pursuit ..."
2. Prolegomena to Ethics by Thomas Hill Green (1899)
"If thinking about payment of the debt means merely an otiose contemplation ...
At any rate the object thought of in such thinking, such otiose contemplation ..."