Lackadaisical vs Otiose - What's the difference?
lackadaisical | otiose |
Showing no interest or enthusiasm.
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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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As adjectives the difference between lackadaisical and otiose
is that lackadaisical is showing no interest or enthusiasm while otiose is resulting in no effect.lackadaisical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I could hear the sound of the janitor's lackadaisical scrubbing against the wooden floor.
- the lackadaisical look on his face
Synonyms
* (showing no interest or enthusiasm) languid, listless, unenthusiastic, uninterested * See alsoDerived terms
* lackadaisically * lackadaisicalnessotiose
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;
