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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being;
- Example: "otiose lines in a play"
- Example: "advice is wasted words"
- Example: "a pointless remark"
- Example: "a life essentially purposeless"
- Example: "senseless violence"
[syn: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted]

2. producing no result or effect;
- Example: "a futile effort"
- Example: "the therapy was ineffectual"
- Example: "an otiose undertaking"
- Example: "an unavailing attempt"
[syn: futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing]

3. disinclined to work or exertion;
- Example: "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"
- Example: "an indolent hanger-on"
- Example: "too lazy to wash the dishes"
- Example: "shiftless idle youth"
- Example: "slothful employees"
- Example: "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"
[syn: faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

otiose
    adj 1: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being;
           "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a
           pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless";
           "senseless violence" [syn: otiose, pointless,
           purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted]
    2: producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the
       therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an
       unavailing attempt" [syn: futile, ineffectual, otiose,
       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, otiose, slothful,
       work-shy]