Otiose vs Frivolous - What's the difference?
otiose | frivolous |
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)
Silly, especially at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate manner.
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Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight.
In litigation, a lawsuit filed by a party who is aware the claim is without merit and has no reasonable prospect of success because of a lack of supporting legal or factual basis.
As adjectives the difference between otiose and frivolous
is that otiose is resulting in no effect while frivolous is silly, especially at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate manner.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;
Synonyms
* (resulting in no effect): futile, ineffective * (reluctant to work): indolent, lazy, sluggish * (having no reason or purpose): superfluous, irrelevant, pointlessAntonyms
* (resulting in no effect): productive, useful * (reluctant to work): hardworking * (having no reason or purpose): essential, necessaryDerived terms
* otiosely * otioseness * otiosityfrivolous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- One of the major cost drivers in the delivery of health care are these junk and frivolous lawsuits.
