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View synonyms for otiose
otiose
/ -ˌəʊz; ˌəʊtɪˈɒsɪtɪ; ˈəʊtɪˌəʊs /
adjective
- serving no useful purpose
otiose language
- rare.indolent; lazy
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Derived Forms
- otiosity, noun
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Other Words From
- o·ti·ose·ly adverb
- o·ti·os·i·ty [oh-shee-, os, -i-tee, oh-tee-], o·ti·ose·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of otiose1
C18: from Latin ōtiōsus leisured, from ōtium leisure
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Example Sentences
There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose.
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Do they serve to direct observation, colligate data, and guide experimentation, or are they otiose?
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A historian may be a theist; but, so far as his work is concerned, this particular belief is otiose.
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Searching comparisons between the arts of Strindberg and Shakespeare are otiose.
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The principle "same cause, same effect," which philosophers imagine to be vital to science, is therefore utterly otiose.
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