Otiose Synonyms

ōshē-ōs, ōtē-
Futile
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. vain
  2. superfluous
  3. useless
  4. pointless
  5. purposeless
  6. hopeless
  7. senseless
  8. wasted
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Ineffective; futile.
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. vain

Words Related to Otiose

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Otiose Sentence Examples

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

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

  • Again, the anti-Wagnerians were entirely justified in penetrating below the splendidly simple and original orchestration of the night-scene between Ortrud and Telramund, and pointing out how feebly its music drifts among a dozen vague keys by means of the diminished 7th; a device which teachers have tried to weed out of every highflown exercise since that otiose chord was first discovered in the 17th century.

  • 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.

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

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