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Otiose

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Adjective

1. otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted

serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being

Example Sentences:
'otiose lines in a play'
'advice is wasted words'
'a pointless remark'
'a life essentially purposeless'
'senseless violence'

2. futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing

producing no result or effect

Example Sentences:
'a futile effort'
'the therapy was ineffectual'
'an otiose undertaking'
'an unavailing attempt'

3. faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy

disinclined to work or exertion

Example Sentences:
'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'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Otiose

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adjective
1. 
serving no useful purpose
otiose language
2. rare
indolent; lazy

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Otiose

see synonyms of otiose
adjective
1.  Rare
idle; indolent
2. 
ineffective; futile
3. 
useless; superfluous

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Otiose

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adj.
1. Lazy; indolent.
2. Of no use; pointless or superfluous: It is otiose to review what happened when the events are so well-known.
3. Ineffective; futile. See Synonyms at vain.

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