What does otiose mean in English? Meaning of otiose definition and abbreviation with examples.
Meaning of "otiose": serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
Adjective
Meaning: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for beingExample: otiose lines in a play
advice is wasted words
a pointless remark
a life essentially purposeless
senseless violenceSynonyms: otiose
pointless
purposeless
senseless
superfluous
wastedSimilar: worthlessPronunciation in US: /ˈoʊ.ʃi.oʊs/ or /ˈoʊ.ti.oʊs/
Meaning of "otiose": producing no result or effect
Adjective
Meaning: producing no result or effectExample: a futile effort
the therapy was ineffectual
an otiose undertaking
an unavailing attemptSynonyms: futile
ineffectual
otiose
unavailingSimilar: uselessPronunciation in US: /ˈoʊ.ʃi.oʊs/ or /ˈoʊ.ti.oʊs/
Meaning of "otiose": disinclined to work or exertion
Adjective
Meaning: disinclined to work or exertionExample: 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-shySynonyms: faineant
indolent
lazy
otiose
slothful
work-shySimilar: idlePronunciation in US: /ˈoʊ.ʃi.oʊs/ or /ˈoʊ.ti.oʊs/
Adjective: Resulting in no effect.Reluctant to work or to exert oneself.Having no reason for being (raison d’être); having no point, reason, or purpose. 1895, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vailima Letters, ch 3 On Friday morning, I had to be at my house affairs before seven; and they kept me in Apia till past ten, disputing, and consulting about brick and stone and native and hydraulic lime, and cement and sand, and all sorts of otiose details about the chimney – just what I fled from in my father’s office twenty years ago; 1969, G. R. Elton, The Practice of History: Neither the fact that the debates can become otiose, nor their zeal in so often simply echoing the points made in the past, need, however, lead one to suppose that the proper cure is silence.1895, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vailima Letters, ch 3 On Friday morning, I had to be at my house affairs before seven; and they kept me in Apia till past ten, disputing, and consulting about brick and stone and native and hydraulic lime, and cement and sand, and all sorts of otiose details about the chimney – just what I fled from in my father’s office twenty years ago;1969, G. R. Elton, The Practice of History: Neither the fact that the debates can become otiose, nor their zeal in so often simply echoing the points made in the past, need, however, lead one to suppose that the proper cure is silence.Synonyms:
idle, indolent, listless, slothful, hopeless, ineffective, useless, vain, empty, futile, hollow, idle, inactive, indolent, ineffective, laggard, lazy, slothful, sterile, superfluous, surplus, vain,
