otiose

[O·ti*ose`]

Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle.

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Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle.

Adjective S.
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"

Adjective S.
producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt"

Adjective S.
serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"


a.
Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle.


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 unrofitable cessation from even good deeds which they would enforce.

Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle.

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