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Otiose synonyms

ō'shē-ōs', ō'tē-
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indolent
Causing little or no pain:
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  1. Causing little or no pain:
  2. Disliking or avoiding work; lazy; idle
  3. Slow to heal, grow, or develop; inactive:
slothful
Disinclined to work or exertion; lazy.
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  1. Disinclined to work or exertion; lazy.
  2. Characterized by sloth; indolent; lazy
  3. Lazy; inactive; sluggish; indolent; idle; tending to sloth.
idle
Being a period of time in which there is little or no activity:
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  1. Being a period of time in which there is little or no activity:
  2. Lacking substance, value, or basis:
  3. Not employed or busy:
vain
Lacking substance or worth:
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  1. Lacking substance or worth:
  2. Without force or effect; futile, fruitless, unprofitable, unavailing, etc.
  3. Not yielding the desired outcome; fruitless:
useless
Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action).
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  1. Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action).
  2. Incapable of acting or functioning effectively; ineffectual or inept:
  3. (Pejorative, of a person) good-for-nothing; not dependable.
hopeless
Characterized by despair:
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  1. Characterized by despair:
  2. Having no hope; despairing:
  3. Having no hope or chance of changing or improving:
empty
Lacking force or power:
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  1. Lacking force or power:
  2. Having nothing inside or on the surface; holding or containing nothing:
  3. Devoid; destitute:
hollow
Having a reverberating, sepulchral sound:
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  1. Having a reverberating, sepulchral sound:
  2. Without substance or character:
  3. Having a cavity, gap, or space within:
idle
Designating certain parts of a fuel system that set an engine's idling speed
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  1. Designating certain parts of a fuel system that set an engine's idling speed
  2. Not in use or operation:
  3. Being a period of time in which there is little or no activity:
vacant
Not occupied or put to use:
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  1. Not occupied or put to use:
  2. Containing nothing; empty:
  3. Lacking expression; blank:
vain
Lacking substance or worth:
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  1. Lacking substance or worth:
  2. Having no real value or significance; worthless, empty, idle, hollow, etc.
  3. Without force or effect; futile, fruitless, unprofitable, unavailing, etc.
Find another word for otiose. In this page you can discover 45 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for otiose, like: indolent, slothful, idle, vain, useless, hopeless, lazy, listless, futile, vain and empty.

Sentence Examples

  • In it, too, the sense of duty will have become otiose and have disappeared, being essentially a relic of the history of the moral consciousness.

  • (j) In many parts of the world, and especially in Africa, is found the conception termed the "otiose creator"; that is to say, the belief in a great deity, who is the author of all that exists but is too remote from the world and too high above terrestrial things to concern himself with the details of the universe.

  • A list of such otiose great beings in the background of religion is given in Lang's The Making of Religion (1898).

  • Amendment No. 18 deletes clause 13, which now becomes otiose.

  • Yes, I agree some of my original comments seem otiose, but where made in relation to a flawed solution.

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