otiose

otiose is a 6-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 6 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle.
2. adjective. disinclined to work or exertion

   "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"

   "an indolent hanger-on"

   Synonyms: faineant, indolent, lazy, slothful

3. adjective. producing no result or effect

   "a futile effort"

   "the therapy was ineffectual"

   Synonyms: futile, ineffectual, unavailing

4. adjective. serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being

   "otiose lines in a play"

   "advice is wasted words"

   Synonyms: pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted

Synonyms

faineant, indolent, lazy, slothful, futile, ineffectual, unavailing, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in otiose:

toosie

Common word forms

otiosely, otioseness

Words from these letters

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