serving no practical purpose
The word otiose could apply to individuals, meaning indolent, idle, or lazy. But its major use as an adjective is to mean futile, hopeless, or useless, or indicate that something is superfluous or pointless.
She did prepare well for exam but all effort went in otiose. The otiose regulation angered citizens. Senators and Representatives in Congress were in disagreement about the otiose legislation.
lazy, not useful, idle, indolent, stuff like that.
The word "otiose" is an adjective and so doesn't have a past tense. Only verbs have past tenses.
(Otiose is used to indicate that something is futile, useless, or superfluous.) "With the opening of the new bridge, the otiose regulations for ferry traffic were quietly withdrawn." "In rural areas, it is not uncommon to find otiose equipment used as lawn ornaments."
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others, otters, otiose
Jerry is a kind of guy who is always prone to otiose confabulations
First , you control your otiose spending money from your hand
During the loquacious meeting, tempers flared and a kerfuffle ensued over questioning the probity of certain actions. Despite attempts to resolve the issue, the argument turned into an otiose exchange of vituperative remarks, leaving little room for progress to be made.
Otiose is a single word synonym for serving no useful purpose.
to the extent unnecessary additional info., superfluousto the extent useless, otiose