See otiose in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1929, Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica:",
"text": "The most eminent jurists have not even yet decided on a satisfactory definition of piracy. […] One school holds that it is any felony committed on the High Seas. But that does little except render a separate term otiose. Moreover, it is not accepted by other schools of thought.",
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"ref": "1961, Harold Nicolson, “Thirteen Colonies”, in The Age Of Reason (non-fiction), Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 203:",
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"ref": "1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 216:",
"text": "Pemulis, w/ aid of 150mg. of time-release Tenuate Dospan, almost danced a little post-transaction jig on his way up the steps of the otiose Cambridge bus.",
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}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1929, Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica:",
"text": "The most eminent jurists have not even yet decided on a satisfactory definition of piracy. […] One school holds that it is any felony committed on the High Seas. But that does little except render a separate term otiose. Moreover, it is not accepted by other schools of thought.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Having no effect."
],
"links": [
[
"effect",
"effect"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1961, Harold Nicolson, “Thirteen Colonies”, in The Age Of Reason (non-fiction), Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 203:",
"text": "It may seem otiose thus to have re-examined the elements of a distant controversy. I have sought only to indicate that there are several perfectly respectable reasons why British opinion should have been so utterly bewildered between 1793 and 1783. Such an examination, even if it manages not to cause offense, is bound itself to become confused and to reflect the cloudy muddle of the period. It is preferable therefore to elucidate the conflict by describing its changing effects on a single individual.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Done in a careless or perfunctory manner."
],
"links": [
[
"careless",
"careless"
],
[
"perfunctory",
"perfunctory"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 216:",
"text": "Pemulis, w/ aid of 150mg. of time-release Tenuate Dospan, almost danced a little post-transaction jig on his way up the steps of the otiose Cambridge bus.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Reluctant to work or to exert oneself."
],
"links": [
[
"work",
"work"
],
[
"exert",
"exert"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Of a person, possessing a bored indolence."
],
"links": [
[
"bored",
"bored"
],
[
"indolence",
"indolence"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1895, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 3, in Vailima Letters:",
"text": "On Friday morning, I had to be at my house affairs before seven; and they kept me in Apia till past ten, disputing, and consulting about brick and stone and native and hydraulic lime, and cement and sand, and all sorts of otiose details about the chimney – just what I fled from in my father’s office twenty years ago;",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1969, G. R. Elton, The Practice of History:",
"text": "Neither the fact that the debates can become otiose, nor their zeal in so often simply echoing the points made in the past, need, however, lead one to suppose that the proper cure is silence.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Having no reason for being (raison d’être); having no point, reason, or purpose."
],
"links": [
[
"reason",
"reason"
],
[
"raison d’être",
"raison d’être"
],
[
"point",
"point"
],
[
"purpose",
"purpose"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈəʊ.ʃi.əʊs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"other": "/ˈəʊ.ti.əʊs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈoʊ.ʃi.oʊs/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"General-American"
]
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],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "futile"
},
{
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "ineffective"
},
{
"sense": "reluctant to work",
"word": "indolent"
},
{
"sense": "reluctant to work",
"word": "lazy"
},
{
"sense": "reluctant to work",
"word": "sluggish"
},
{
"sense": "having no reason or purpose",
"word": "superfluous"
},
{
"sense": "having no reason or purpose",
"word": "irrelevant"
},
{
"sense": "having no reason or purpose",
"word": "pointless"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bezpolezen",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "безполезен"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "zinloos"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "hyödytön"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "tarpeeton"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "inutile"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "amao",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "ამაო"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "puč̣i",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "ფუჭი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "fruchtlos"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "vergeblich"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "nichtig"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "hiábavaló"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "felesleges"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "hasztalan"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "haszontalan"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "inutile"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "vano"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "muda na",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "むだな"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "muyō na",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "無用な"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "heotdoen",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "헛된"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "niepotrzebny"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bespoléznyj",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "бесполе́зный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "naprásnyj",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "напра́сный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nenúžnyj",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "нену́жный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "besplódnyj",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "беспло́дный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tščétnyj",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "тще́тный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "resulting in no effect",
"word": "inútil"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "mǎrzeliv",
"sense": "reluctant to work",
"word": "мързелив"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "reluctant to work",
"word": "lui"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "reluctant to work",
"word": "joutilas"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "reluctant to work",
"word": "toimeton"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "reluctant to work",
"word": "oisif"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "zarmaci",
"sense": "reluctant to work",
"word": "ზარმაცი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "reluctant to work",
"word": "müßig"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "reluctant to work",
"word": "tétlen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "reluctant to work",
"word": "dologtalan"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "reluctant to work",
"word": "semmittevő"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "reluctant to work",
"word": "ozioso"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "reluctant to work",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "leniwy"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lenívyj",
"sense": "reluctant to work",
"word": "лени́вый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prázdnyj",
"sense": "reluctant to work",
"word": "пра́здный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "reluctant to work",
"word": "ocioso"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "reluctant to work",
"word": "desocupado"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nenužen",
"sense": "having no reason or purpose",
"word": "ненужен"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "having no reason or purpose",
"word": "zinloos"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "having no reason or purpose",
"word": "overbodig"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "having no reason or purpose",
"word": "doelloos"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "uazro",
"sense": "having no reason or purpose",
"word": "უაზრო"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "having no reason or purpose",
"word": "zwecklos"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "having no reason or purpose",
"word": "céltalan"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "having no reason or purpose",
"word": "szükségtelen"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "yokē na",
"sense": "having no reason or purpose",
"word": "余計な"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "having no reason or purpose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "niepotrzebny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "having no reason or purpose",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zbyteczny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "having no reason or purpose",
"word": "bezprzedmiotowy"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bescélʹnyj",
"sense": "having no reason or purpose",
"word": "бесце́льный"
}
],
"word": "otiose"
}
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