eng: otiose

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Meaning
means	(adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence" wasted, senseless, purposeless, pointless, superfluous, otiose
means	(adjective) producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt" ineffectual, futile, unavailing, otiose
means	(adjective) 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" indolent, work-shy, faineant, otiose, lazy, slothful