Antonyms for otiose
ˈoʊ ʃiˌoʊs, ˈoʊ ti-otiose

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1. otioseadjective

   Antonyms:
   necessary, hardworking, useful, essential, productive

   Synonyms:
   ineffective, superfluous, irrelevant, indolent, futile, pointless, lazy, sluggish

2. otioseadjective

   Resulting in no effect.

   Antonyms:
   necessary, productive, hardworking, useful, essential

   Synonyms:
   superfluous, sluggish, irrelevant, pointless, indolent, lazy, ineffective, futile

3. otioseadjective

   Reluctant to work or to exert oneself.

   Antonyms:
   essential, necessary, useful, productive, hardworking

   Synonyms:
   pointless, superfluous, ineffective, lazy, sluggish, irrelevant, futile, indolent

4. otioseadjective

   Having no reason for being (raison d’être); having no point, reason, or purpose.

   Synonyms:
   superfluous, indolent, lazy, irrelevant, futile, pointless, ineffective, sluggish

   Antonyms:
   hardworking, productive, essential, useful, necessary

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1. otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wastedadjective

   serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being

   "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence"

   Antonyms:
   useful, utile, busy, valuable

   Synonyms:
   spare, gaunt, work-shy, supernumerary, diminished, unpointed, lazy, slothful, emaciated, pinched, surplus, cadaverous, superfluous, faineant, ineffectual, futile, mindless, witless, supererogatory, excess, redundant, nitwitted, wasted, insensible, haggard, senseless, purposeless, unavailing, reasonless, skeletal, pointless, atrophied, soft-witted, indolent, extra, bony, squandered

2. futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailingadjective

   producing no result or effect

   "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt"

   Antonyms:
   valuable, useful, utile, busy

   Synonyms:
   senseless, ineffectual, bootless, work-shy, vain, purposeless, slothful, superfluous, unavailing, sleeveless, indolent, futile, uneffective, faineant, pointless, wasted, unable, lazy, ineffective, fruitless

3. faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shyadjective

   disinclined to work or exertion

   "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"

   Antonyms:
   useful, utile, busy, valuable

   Synonyms:
   indolent, superfluous, faineant, work-shy, wasted, purposeless, pointless, senseless, futile, unavailing, ineffectual, lazy, slothful

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