• adj.
    ⦿serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
    lexical concept
  • a life essentially purposeless
  • a pointless remark
  • advice is wasted words
  • otiose lines in a play
  • senseless violence

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:otiose
  2. enl:pointless
  3. enl:purposeless
  4. enl:senseless
  5. enl:superfluous
  6. enl:wasted
wn:interlingual indexili:i13884

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • otiosepointlesspurposelesssenselesssuperfluouswasted
  • purposeless