ocioso
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin ōtiōsus (“idle; unemployed”), from ōtium (“leisure”) + -ōsus.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ozu
- Hyphenation: o‧ci‧o‧so
Adjective edit
ocioso (feminine ociosa, masculine plural ociosos, feminine plural ociosas, metaphonic)
- idle (not engaged in any occupation or employment)
- Synonyms: desempregado, inativo
- Antonym: empregado
- lazy; work-shy
- Synonyms: indolente, preguiçoso, vagabundo
- Antonyms: diligente, industrioso
- (of a period of time) when there is nothing to do
- not being used
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /oˈθjoso/ [oˈθjo.so]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /oˈsjoso/ [oˈsjo.so]
- Rhymes: -oso
- Syllabification: o‧cio‧so
Adjective edit
ocioso (feminine ociosa, masculine plural ociosos, feminine plural ociosas)
Noun edit
ocioso m (plural ociosos, feminine ociosa, feminine plural ociosas)
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Further reading edit
- “ocioso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014