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Definition of Otiose

1. Adjective. Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being. "Senseless violence"

2. Adjective. Producing no result or effect. "An unavailing attempt"

3. Adjective. Disinclined to work or exertion. "The unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"

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

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Otiose

otherworldly otherworlds otherworldy othman othonna otic otic abscess otic barotrauma otic bone otic capsule

otic ganglion otic pits otic placodes otilonium bromide otiose (current term) otiosely otioseness otiosenesses otiosities otiosity

otis otitic otitic hydrocephalus otitic meningitis otitides otitis otitis desquamativa otitis externa otitis interna

Literary usage of Otiose

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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 ..."

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