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Adjective otiose has 3 senses
- otiose, pointless, superfluous, wasted - serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"
Antonym: valuable (indirect, via worthless)
- futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing - producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt"
Antonyms: useful, utile (indirect, via useless)
- faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy - 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"
Antonym: busy (indirect, via idle)
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