Otiose \O"ti*ose`\, a. [L. otiosus, fr. otium ease.]
Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle. "Otiose
assent." --Paley.
[1913 Webster]
The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and
unprofitable cessation from even good deeds which they
would enforce. --Alford.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "otiose":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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