参考词典中otiose的常规释义:
基本释义
- a. 不必要的,怠惰的,没有用的,多余的
词形变化
- 名 词:o'ti·os'i·ty副 词:o'ti·ose'ly
英英解释
3个形容词解释
- serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
[同] otiose, pointless, superfluous, wasted
[例]- otiose lines in a play
- advice is wasted words
- producing no result or effect
[同] futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing
[例]- a futile effort
- the therapy was ineffectual
- an otiose undertaking
- an unavailing attempt
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- disinclined to work or exertion
[同] faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy
[例]- 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
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