otiose
/ˈəʊtɪəʊs
/ /ˈəʊʃɪəʊs/ /ˈəʊtɪəʊz/ /ˈəʊʃɪəʊz/adjective
1Serving no practical purpose or result: there were occasions when I felt my efforts were rather otiose...
- But in the hospital case such a purpose is otiose.
- I agree with her submission that his construction would render paragraph 3 in practice otiose.
- If so, it would be otiose for the officer concerned to give an explanation.
2 archaic Indolent or idle.
Derivatives
otiosely
otiosity
Origin
Late 18th century: from Latin otiosus, from otium 'leisure'.
negotiate from early 17th century:
The words negotiate and negotiations (Late Middle English) came into English from the Latin verb negotiari, which was made up of the two parts neg-, meaning ‘not’, and otium, ‘leisure’, the same image as business. Otium is also the root of the English word otiose (late 18th century), ‘serving no practical purpose, pointless’.
- muck-shovelling
- muck soil
- muck someone about/around
- muck something up
- muck spreader
- muck-spreading
- muck stick
- muck-swamp
- muck sweat
- mucksy
- muck up
- muck-up day
- muck wain
- muckweed
- muckworm
- mucky
- mucky-muck
- mucky pup
- muco-
- mucocele
- mucociliary
- mucocoele
- mucocutaneous
- mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome
- mucocyst