otiose
/oh-shee-ohs, oh-tee-/US // ˈoʊ ʃiˌoʊs, ˈoʊ ti- //UK // (ˈəʊtɪˌəʊs, -ˌəʊz) //
燕窝,燕麦,燕尾服,燕子
Related Words
idle闲置,闲置的,空闲,闲散的indolent懒洋洋的,懒散,懒散的人,懒洋洋listless没精打采的,没精打采,怅然若失,没精打彩slothful懒惰,懒散,懒惰的人,懒惰的hopeless无可救药,没救了,无可救药的,无望的ineffective无效的,无效,不起作用的,不起作用useless无用的,无用,没有用的,毫无用处vain虚荣,虚荣心,徒劳,徒劳的empty空,空的,空空如也,空荡荡的futile徒劳的,徒劳无益,徒劳无功,徒劳hollow中空,空心的,空心,空洞的inactive不活跃,不活跃的,不活动的,不活跃的人laggard落后者,落伍者,滞后,落后的lazy懒惰,懒散的,懒惰的,懒散sterile不育,不孕不育,不育的,不育症superfluous冗长的,冗长,赘余的,赘余surplus剩余,剩余的,盈余,过剩
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : being at leisure; idle; indolent.
- : ineffective or futile.
- : superfluous or useless.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose.
Do they serve to direct observation, colligate data, and guide experimentation, or are they otiose?
A historian may be a theist; but, so far as his work is concerned, this particular belief is otiose.
Searching comparisons between the arts of Strindberg and Shakespeare are otiose.
The principle "same cause, same effect," which philosophers imagine to be vital to science, is therefore utterly otiose.
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