Usually means: Useless; serving no practical purpose.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. otiose: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. otiose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. otiose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. otiose: Collins English Dictionary
  5. otiose: Vocabulary.com
  6. otiose: Wordnik
  7. otiose: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. otiose: Wiktionary
  9. otiose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. otiose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. otiose: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Otiose, otiose: Dictionary.com
  13. otiose: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Otiose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. otiose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. otiose: Rhymezone
  17. Otiose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. otiose: Free Dictionary
  19. otiose: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. otiose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. otiose: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. otiose: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. otiose: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. otiose: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. otiose: A Word A Day
  2. otiose: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Otiose: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See otiosely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having no effect.
adjective:  Done in a careless or perfunctory manner.
adjective:  Reluctant to work or to exert oneself.
adjective:  Of a person, possessing a bored indolence.
adjective:  Having no reason for being (raison d’être); having no point, reason, or purpose.

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