Synonyms of the word

otiose

• adj. Resulting in no effect.
• adj. Reluctant to work or to exert oneself.
• adj. Having no reason for being (raison d’être); having no point, reason, or purpose.

faineant

• n. An irresponsible or lazy person.

futile

• adj. Incapable of producing results; useless; not successful; not worth attempting.

idle

• adj. (obsolete) Empty, vacant.
• adj. Not being use appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
• adj. Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing.
• adj. Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
• adj. Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
• adj. (obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.
• v. (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
• v. (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
• v. (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.

indolent

• adj. Habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor/labour.
• adj. Inducing laziness (e.g. indolent comfort).
• adj. (medicine) Causing scant or no physical pain; progressing slowly; inactive (of an ulcer, etc.).
• adj. (medicine) Healing slowly.

ineffectual

• adj. unable or insufficient to produce effect; futile.
• adj. worthless.
• adj. weak, indecisive; lacking forcefulness.

lazy

• adj. Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
• adj. Causing idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
• adj. Sluggish; slow-moving.
• adj. Lax.
• adj. (of a cattle brand) Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
• adj. (computing theory) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
• adj. (Britain, obsolete or dialect) Wicked; vicious.
• v. (informal) To laze, act in a lazy manner.
• n. A lazy person.
• n. (obsolete) Sloth (animal).

pointless

• adj. Having no point or sharp tip; terminating squarely or in a rounded end.
• adj. Having no prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc.
• adj. Having no purpose; purposeless; unable to effect an aim.
• adj. (mathematics) Without points.

slothful

• adj. Lazy; inactive; sluggish; indolent; idle; tending to sloth.

superfluous

• adj. In excess of what is required or sufficient.

unavailing

• adj. useless, fruitless, futile.

useless

• adj. Without use or possibility to be used.
• adj. Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action).
• adj. (pejorative, of a person) good-for-nothing; not dependable.
• adj. (colloquial, of a person) unable to do well at a particular task or thing. Useless is mildly insulting.

wasted

• adj. Not profitably used.
• adj. Ravaged or deteriorated.
• adj. Emaciated and haggard.
• adj. (slang) very drunk or stoned.
• adj. (medicine) low weight-for-height (for a person).
• v. simple past tense and past participle of waste.

work-shy

• adj. Alternative spelling of workshy.

worthless

• adj. Not having worth and use, without value, inconsequential.