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otiose

adjective

1 otiose

Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being:
— Otiose lines in a play.

synonyms: pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted.

2 otiose

Producing no result or effect:
— An otiose undertaking.

synonyms: futile, ineffectual, meaningless, unavailing.

Polish: marny, daremny, nadaremny, próżny

3 otiose

Disinclined to work or exertion.

synonyms: faineant, indolent, lazy, slothful, work-shy.

Roget 683: inactive; motionless etc. 265; unoccupied etc. (doing nothing) 681; unbusied.    indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, ... show more

Polish: powolny


Moby thesaurus: abortive, airy, asinine, at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, available, barren, bootless, catchpenny, disengaged, empty, fallow, fatuous, flimsy, foolish, free, fribble, fribbling, frivolous ... show more.

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