Word Meanings - OTIOSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle. "Otiose assent." Paley. The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and unAlford.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OTIOSE)

• Supine
• Lazy
• indolent
• indifferent
• listless
• inactive
• negligent
• inattentive
• careless
• sluggish
• otiose
• torpid

Related words: (words related to OTIOSE)

• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• INDIFFERENTLY
  In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
• SUPINE
  1. Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone. 2. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined. If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills supine. Dryden. 3. Negligent; heedless; indolent;
• NEGLIGENTLY
  In a negligent manner.
• OTIOSE
  Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle. "Otiose assent." Paley. The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and unAlford.
• INATTENTIVE
  Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit. I. Watts. Syn. -- Careless; heedless; regardless; thoughtless; negligent; remiss; inadvertent.
• TORPIDITY
  See TORPIDNESS
• INACTIVE
  Not active; inert; esp., not exhibiting any action or activity on polarized light; optically neutral; -- said of isomeric forms of certain substances, in distinction from other forms which are optically active; as, racemic acid is an inactive
• TORPIDLY
  In a torpid manner.
• INACTIVELY
  In an inactive manner. Locke.
• INDOLENT
  Causing little or no pain or annoyance; as, an indolent tumor. Syn. -- Idle; lazy; slothful; sluggish; listless; inactive; inert. See Idle. (more info) 1. Free from toil, pain, or trouble. 2. Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion;
• INDOLENTLY
  In an indolent manner. Calm and serene you indolently sit. Addison.
• TORPIDNESS
  The qualityy or state of being torpid.
• INDIFFERENTIST
  One governed by indifferentism.
• CARELESS
  1. Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted. Spenser. Sleep she as sound as careless infancy. Shak. 2. Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless. My
• SLUGGISH
  1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man. 2. Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream. 3. Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert. Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power
• CARELESSNESS
  The quality or state of being careless; heedlessness; negligenece; inattention.
• TORPID
  1. Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb. Without heat all things would be torpid. Ray. 2. Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive. Sir M. Hale.
• INDIFFERENT
  Free from bias or prejudice; impartial; unbiased; disinterested. In choice of committees for ripening business for the counsel, it is better indifferent persons than to make an indifferency by putting in those that are strong on both sides. Bacon.
• LISTLESS
  Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless. " A listless unconcern." Thomson. Benumbed with cold, and listless of their gain. Dryden. I was listless, and desponding. Swift. Syn. -- Heedless; careless; indifferent; vacant;
• RESUPINE
  Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless. Sir K. Digby. He spake, and, downward swayed, fell resupine, With his huge neck aslant. Cowper.