otiose

otiose /'ouʃious/
  • tính từ
    • lười biếng
    • rỗ rãi
    • (từ hiếm,nghĩa hiếm) vô ích, vô tác dụng

Xem thêm: pointless, superfluous, wasted, futile, ineffectual, unavailing, faineant, indolent, lazy, slothful, work-shy



otiose

Từ điển WordNet

    adj.

  • serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; pointless, superfluous, wasted

    otiose lines in a play

    advice is wasted words

  • producing no result or effect; futile, ineffectual, unavailing

    a futile effort

    the therapy was ineffectual

    an otiose undertaking

    an unavailing attempt

  • disinclined to work or exertion; faineant, indolent, lazy, slothful, work-shy

    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


English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary


syn.: faineant futile indolent ineffectual lazy pointless slothful superfluous unavailing wasted work-shy