'otiose' definitions:
Definition of 'otiose'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted]
adjective
Producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt" [syn: futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing]
adjective
Synonyms of 'otiose'
From: 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,
- frothy,
- fruitless,
- functionless,
- futile,
- gainless,
- idle,
- in disrepair,
- inane,
- inapplicable,
- inoperable,
- inoperative,
- jobless,
- leisure,
- leisured,
- light,
- lumpen,
- nonfunctional,
- nonremunerative,
- nonutilitarian,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- off,
- off duty,
- off work,
- out of employ,
- out of harness,
- out of order,
- out of whack,
- out of work,
- profitless,
- rewardless,
- shallow,
- silly,
- slender,
- slight,
- sterile,
- superficial,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- unconducive,
- unemployable,
- unemployed,
- unfit,
- unhelpful,
- unoccupied,
- unproductive,
- unprofitable,
- unremunerative,
- unrewarding,
- unsuitable,
- unusable,
- unworkable,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- vapid,
- windy