otiose

/ˈəʊ.ʃi.əʊs/

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Çeviriler

sıfat

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

  1. sıfat Having no effect.

    “The most eminent jurists have not even yet decided on a satisfactory definition of piracy. […] One school holds that it is any felony committed on the High Seas. But that does little except render a separate term otiose. Moreover, it is not accepted by other schools of thought.”

  2. sıfat Done in a careless or perfunctory manner.
  3. sıfat Reluctant to work or to exert oneself.

    “Pemulis, w/ aid of 150mg. of time-release Tenuate Dospan, almost danced a little post-transaction jig on his way up the steps of the otiose Cambridge bus.”

  4. sıfat Of a person, possessing a bored indolence.
  5. sıfat Having no reason for being (raison d’être); having no point, reason, or purpose.

    “Neither the fact that the debates can become otiose, nor their zeal in so often simply echoing the points made in the past, need, however, lead one to suppose that the proper cure is silence.”

Eş anlamlılar

futile ineffective pointless bootless barren fruitless gainless idle inane ineffectual inefficacious inutile no good profitless purposeless tired unavailing unprofitable unuseful unutilizable

Zıt anlamlılar

productive useful prolific pregnant batful fertile careful hardworking engaged essential

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