Hardworking vs Otiose - What's the difference?
hardworking | otiose | Antonyms |
Resulting in no effect.
Reluctant to work or to exert oneself.
Having no reason for being (); having no point, reason, or purpose.
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(first two senses)
Hardworking is an antonym of otiose.
As adjectives the difference between hardworking and otiose
is that hardworking is of a person, taking their work seriously and doing it well and rapidly while otiose is resulting in no effect.otiose
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- On Friday morning, I had to be at my house affairs before seven; and they kept me in Apia till past ten, disputing, and consulting about brick and stone and native and hydraulic lime, and cement and sand, and all sorts of otiose details about the chimney – just what I fled from in my father’s office twenty years ago;