Otiose

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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