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o⋅ti⋅ose

[oh-shee-ohs, oh-tee-]
–adjective
1. being at leisure; idle; indolent.
2. ineffective or futile.
3. superfluous or useless.

Origin:
1785–95; < L ōtiōsus at leisure, equiv. to ōti(um) leisure + -ōsus -ose 1


o⋅ti⋅ose⋅ly, adverb
o⋅ti⋅os⋅i⋅ty [oh-shee-os-i-tee, oh-tee-] , o⋅ti⋅ose⋅ness, noun


1. lazy, slothful. 2. idle, vain, profitless. 3. redundant, worthless, pointless.
o·ti·ose   (ō'shē-ōs', ō'tē-)   
adj.  
  1. Lazy; indolent.
  2. Of no use.
  3. Ineffective; futile. See Synonyms at vain.

[Latin ōtiōsus, idle, from ōtium, leisure.]
o'ti·ose'ly adv., o'ti·os'i·ty (-ŏs'ĭ-tē) n.

Otiose

O"ti*ose`\, a. [L. otiosus, fr. otium ease.] Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle. "Otiose assent." --Paley.

The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and un?rofitable cessation from even good deeds which they would enforce. --Alford.

otiose 
1794, "unfruitful, futile," from L. otiosus "having leisure or ease, not busy" (cf. Fr. oiseux, Sp. ocioso, It. otioso), from otium "leisure," of unknown origin. Meaning "at leisure, idle" is recorded from 1850.
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