Otiose
adjective
Not needed or serving no purpose.
Their attempts to clarify things just made the situation more otiose.
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Being at leisure, idle, doing nothing.
He felt otiose after retiring from his active career.
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Not needed or serving no purpose.
Their attempts to clarify things just made the situation more otiose.
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Being at leisure, idle, doing nothing.
He felt otiose after retiring from his active career.
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Completely Unnecessary
Use 'otiose' to stress that something is so unnecessary it has no impact on the situation.
Despite the team's success, his otiose commentary did not contribute to their strategy.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Otiose' often implies a negative opinion about the unnecessary nature of something.
The otiose meeting could have been an email.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Context
'Otiose' is typically used in more formal or academic contexts, rather than casual conversation.
The editor found several otiose sentences in the manuscript.
Pro Tip 1/3Completely Unnecessary
Use 'otiose' to stress that something is so unnecessary it has no impact on the situation.
Despite the team's success, his otiose commentary did not contribute to their strategy.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Otiose' often implies a negative opinion about the unnecessary nature of something.
The otiose meeting could have been an email.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Context
'Otiose' is typically used in more formal or academic contexts, rather than casual conversation.
The editor found several otiose sentences in the manuscript.
Pro Tip 1/3Completely Unnecessary
Use 'otiose' to stress that something is so unnecessary it has no impact on the situation.
Despite the team's success, his otiose commentary did not contribute to their strategy.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Otiose' often implies a negative opinion about the unnecessary nature of something.
The otiose meeting could have been an email.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Context
'Otiose' is typically used in more formal or academic contexts, rather than casual conversation.
The editor found several otiose sentences in the manuscript.
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Quote examples
Seamus Heaney
Irish Poet
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God's sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.
Quote examples
Seamus Heaney
Irish Poet
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God's sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.
Example 1 of 1
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