On Friday morning, I had to be at my house affairs before seven; and they kept me in Apia till past ten, disputing, and consulting about brick and stone and native and hydraulic lime, and cement and sand, and all sorts of otiose details about the chimney – just what I fled from in my father’s office twenty years ago;
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Otiose — O ti*ose , a. [L. otiosus, fr. otium ease.] Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle. Otiose assent. Paley. [1913 Webster] The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and unprofitable cessation from even good deeds which they… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
otiose — I adjective abortive, apathetic, arid, barren, bootless, dallying, dilatory, disengaged, dispensable, disused, dormant, dried up, effete, exhausted, expendable, faineant, fallow, feckless, fruitless, futile, idle, impotent, impracticable,… … Law dictionary
otiose — (adj.) 1794, unfruitful, futile, from L. otiosus having leisure or ease, not busy (source of Fr. oiseux, Sp. ocioso, It. otioso), from otium leisure, of unknown origin. Meaning at leisure, idle is recorded from 1850 … Etymology dictionary
otiose — *vain, nugatory, idle, empty, hollow Analogous words: *superfluous, supernumerary, surplus: *futile, vain, fruitless, bootless … New Dictionary of Synonyms
otiose — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ serving no practical purpose; pointless. ORIGIN Latin otiosus, from otium leisure … English terms dictionary
otiose — [ō′shē ōs΄, ōt′ēōs΄] adj. [L otiosus < otium, leisure] 1. Rare idle; indolent 2. ineffective; futile 3. useless; superfluous SYN. VAIN otiosely adv. otiosity [ō′shēäs′ə tē, ōt′ēäs′ə tē] n … English World dictionary
otiose — adjective formal ideas or words that are otiose are unnecessary; redundant (2) … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
otiose — adjective Etymology: Latin otiosus, from otium leisure Date: 1794 1. producing no useful result ; futile 2. being at leisure ; idle 3. lacking use or effect ; functionless Synonyms: see vain • otiosely … New Collegiate Dictionary
otiose — otiosely, adv. otiosity /oh shee os i tee, oh tee /, otioseness, n. /oh shee ohs , oh tee /, adj. 1. being at leisure; idle; indolent. 2. ineffective or futile. 3. superfluous or useless. [1785 95; < L otiosus at leisure, equiv. to oti(um)… … Universalium
otiose — Synonyms and related words: abortive, airy, asinine, at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, available, barren, bootless, catchpenny, disengaged, empty, fallow, fatuous, flimsy, foolish, free, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fruitless,… … Moby Thesaurus
