Adjective

• 1. serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being;

  "otiose lines in a play"

  "advice is wasted words"

• 2. producing no result or effect;

  "a futile effort"

  "the therapy was ineffectual"

  "an otiose undertaking"

  "an unavailing attempt"

• 3. disinclined to work or exertion;

  "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"

  "an indolent hanger-on"

  "too lazy to wash the dishes"

  "shiftless idle youth"

  "slothful employees"

  "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"