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otiose |
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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