Thesaurus: otiose

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1. a. Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle.
2. adj. serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
3. adj. producing no result or effect
4. adj. disinclined to work or exertion
5. Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle. "Otiose assent." Paley. The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and unAlford.
6. Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle. "Otioseassent." Paley.The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and unAlford.
7. s. serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being