Today's Word "otiose"
Published in Vocabulary
otiose \OH-shee-ohs; OH-tee-\ (adjective) - 1 : Ineffective; futile. 2 : Being at leisure; lazy; indolent; idle. 3 : Of no use.
"Higgins affected an otiose lifestyle that, by all appearances, was impossible to maintain. Yet maintain it he did, for many, many years."
Otiose is from Latin otiosus, "idle, at leisure," from otium, "leisure."
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