Definitions for otiose

otiose o·ti·ose

Spelling: [oh-shee-ohs, oh-tee-]
IPA: /ˈoʊ ʃiˌoʊs, ˈoʊ ti-/

Otiose is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in otiose (eioost).

Definitions for otiose

adjective

  1. being at leisure; idle; indolent.
  2. ineffective or futile.
  3. superfluous or useless.

Origin of otiose

1785-95; Latin ōtiōsus at leisure, equivalent to ōti(um) leisure + -ōsus -ose1

Examples for otiose

But in the great work of redemption the will of man cannot be otiose.

As he which wolde go: otiose, or at best meaning no more than 'desiring to go'.

He is, however, in part an otiose deity and can hardly be said to rule over this otherworldly realm.

The Bible is verbally inspired at least in the sense that nothing in it is otiose; every word is meant.

Otherwise it would result that the words name and alone would be otiose.

It appears to me that these affable familiar ghosts, practically serviceable, had cast the otiose Atahocan into the background.

Women with otiose husbands have a task to preserve friendship.

He is an absolute master of the otiose word, the superfluous sentence.

But to judge from the otiose majesty of some publishers, one would imagine that they had written at least "Childe Harold."

Compare the supreme being of the Caribs, beneficent, otiose, unadored.

Word Value for otiose
Scrable

6

Words with friends

6

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