Hypertext Webster Gateway: "otiose"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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
un?rofitable cessation from even good deeds which they
would enforce. --Alford.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
otiose
adj 1: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being;
"otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"
[syn: {pointless}, {superfluous}, {wasted}]
2: producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the
therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an
unavailing attempt" [syn: {futile}, {ineffectual}, {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}, {slothful},
{work-shy}]
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