otiose
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
otiose
- Having no effect.
- Done in a careless or perfunctory manner.
- Reluctant to work or to exert oneself.
- Of a person, possessing a bored indolence.
- 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;
- 1895, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vailima Letters, ch 3
- (resulting in no effect): futile, ineffective
- (reluctant to work): indolent, lazy, sluggish
- (having no reason or purpose): superfluous, irrelevant, pointless
- (resulting in no effect): productive, useful
- (reluctant to work): hardworking
- (having no reason or purpose): essential, necessary
- French: inutile
- German: fruchtlos, vergeblich, nichtig
- Italian: inutile, vano
- Russian: бесполе́зный
- Spanish: inútil
- German: zwecklos
- Russian: бесце́льный
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