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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Otiose  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  otiose 
  adj  1:  serving  no  useful  purpose;  having  no  excuse  for  being 
  "otiose  lines  in  a  play";  "advice  is  wasted  words" 
  [syn:  {pointless},  {superfluous},  {wasted}] 
  2:  producing  no  result  or  effect;  "a  futile  effort";  "the 
  therapy  was  ineffectual";  "an  otiose  undertaking";  "an 
  unavailing  attempt"  [syn:  {futile},  {ineffectual},  {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},  {slothful}, 
  {work-shy}] 




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