otiose : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: otiose	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for otiose
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
otiose adj 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" Synonym(s): otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt" Synonym(s): futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing 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" Synonym(s): faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Otiose \O"tiose`\, a. [L. otiosus, fr. otium ease.] Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle. [bd]Otiose* assent.[b8] --Paley. The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and un[?]rofitable cessation from even good deeds which they would enforce. --Alford.