oti·ose /ˈoʃiˌos, ˈoti-/
(a.)不必要的,怠惰的,沒有用的,多餘的
O·ti·ose a. Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle. “Otiose assent.”
The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and unprofitable cessation from even good deeds which they would enforce. --Alford.
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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]