Found 2 items, similar to otiose.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: otiose otiose adj 1: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; “otiose lines in a play”; “advice is wasted words” [syn: pointless, superfluous, wasted] 2: producing no result or effect; “a futile effort”; “the therapy was ineffectual”; “an otiose undertaking”; “an unavailing attempt” [syn: futile, ineffectual, unavailing] 3: disinclined to work or exertion; “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” [syn: faineant, indolent, lazy, slothful, work-shy]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Otiose 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 would enforce. --Alford. [1913 Webster]