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otiose
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Otiose \O"ti*ose`\, a. [L. otiosus, fr. otium ease.]
Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle.
``Otiose assent.''
--Paley.
The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and
unprofitable cessation from even good deeds which they
would enforce.
--Alford.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1794, "unfruitful, futile," from Latin otiosus "having leisure or ease,unoccupied, idle, not busy" (source of French oiseux, Spanish ocioso, Italian otioso), from otium "leisure, free time, freedom from business," of unknown origin. Meaning "at leisure, idle" is recorded from 1850. Compare Latin phrase otium cum dignitate "leisure with dignity." Earlier adjective in English was otious- "at ease" (1610s), and Middle English had noun otiosity (late 15c.).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Resulting in no effect. 2 Reluctant to work or to exert oneself. 3 Having no reason for being (raison d’être); having no point, reason, or purpose.
WordNet
adj. serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words" [syn: pointless, superfluous, wasted]
producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt" [syn: futile, ineffectual, 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" [syn: faineant, indolent, lazy, slothful, work-shy]
Usage examples of "otiose".
His own girl sat sprawled out gracelessly on an overstuffed sofa with an expression of otiose boredom.
Still there are only four figures out of the eleven that are mere otiose supers, and taking the work as a whole it leaves a pleasant impression as being throughout naive and homely, and sometimes, which is of less importance, technically excellent.
He used to present copies of this otiose chronicle to his business associates, who must have been surprised, though perhaps not.
It used to be said by the non-repre-sentationalists that coloured photography had reduced the old-fashioned portrait and the old-fashioned landscape to the rank of otiose absurdities.
The question is not less gnawing and unpleasant for being so otiose, so naive.
According to report, Rekitakh was able to afford fair lodgings in that fair city, and to enjoy the otiose, pleasurable life of an illustrissimus.
Likewise an otiose remark, but mad or not, there were still two sides to his head.
If they do this sufficiently, it is otiose and impertinent to entertain the notion of creating any new theatrical agency.
It would be otiose to collect any more tributes to his genius, as it appeared to all Frenchmen, cultivated or semi-cultivated, about the year 1880.
John Kruse and Peter Bloxsom, whom attentive readers will recognise as seasoned veterans of the latter-day genre of Saint adventures, is linked with just one feature unique among these semi-pastiches with which I have tried to beguile you over the last few otiose years.