Words and phrases that have a meaning related to otiose: (133 results)
Often used in the same context:
superfluous, tautological, nugatory, meretricious, fatuous, nonsensical, risible, overdetermined, unmusical, prolix, inapt, vacuous, factitious, pythonesque, puerile, ineloquent, hortatory, grandiloquent, locus classicus, sophistic, contentless, delusory, delusive, onanistic, purblind, ex cathedra, accusative, justificatory, incomprehensive, captious, incommunicable, unexceptionable, dualist, unamusing, egoistical, ungifted, imbecilic, pantomimic, ahistorical, tu quoque, specious, banal, inefficacious, swiftian, ipse dixit, unserious, anachronistic, platitudinous, unpoetic, abstract noun, percipient, syllogistic, beggarly, pedantic, procrustean, ludic, opprobrious, pointless, substanceless, hackneyed, jejune, denotative, farcical, tuneless, shavian, reductive, adverbial, apposite, rhythmless, connotative, denunciatory, vainglorious, infelicitous, purposeless, treasonable, irenic, hubristic, nullities, bathetic, sophistical, fallacious, unobjectionable, absurd, undebatable, unpolitical, overfamiliar, unimprovable, implausible, mealymouthed, perspicuous, ex nihilo, whiggish, ideational, orotund, insensate, laughable, dangling modifier, nabokovian, perfectible, gratuitous, reductio ad absurdum, sententious, prosaic, disgusting, mystifying, unhistorical, lackadaisical, obtrusive, unreal, virile, disreputable, enigmatic, inartistic, insipid, introspective, parenthetic, problematical, puzzling, unemotional, unformed, unintelligent
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Also try:faineant, futile, idle, indolent, ineffectual, lazy, slothful, unavailing, useless, wasted, work-shy, worthless
— Nouns for otiose: assent, deity, god, way, epithets, contemplation, epithet, character, question, questions, manner, more...
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