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inofficious

inofficious adjective: indifferent to obligation or duty.

Adjective

inofficious (comparative more inofficious, superlative most inofficious)

  1. (obsolete) Indifferent to obligation or duty.
    • Vp thou tame River, vvake; / And from the liquid limbes this ſlumber ſhake: / Thou drovvn'st thy ſelfe in inofficious ſleepe; / And theſe thy ſluggiſh vvaters ſeeme to creepe, / Rather than flovv.1604 March 25 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), B[en] Jon[son], “The Pegme at Fen-church”, in B. Jon: His Part of King James His Royall and Magnificent Entertainement through His Honorable...
  2. (obsolete) Not officious; not civil or attentive.
  3. (obsolete) Contrary to one's natural obligation or duty, as of a testament by which a child is unjustly deprived of inheritance.
    • the inofficious testament1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
    • an inofficious disposition of his fortune1785, William Paley, The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy

inofficious meaning in Tamil and Urdu

inofficious in Tamil

பணிக்கடனற்ற

inofficious in Urdu

بیکار, غیرعامل

Forms of inofficious

comparativemore inofficious
superlativemost inofficious

Origin of inofficious

From Latin inofficiōsus. Compare French inofficieux. See in- (“not”) + officious.

Words formed from inofficious

Questions about inofficious

What does inofficious mean?
Inofficious means indifferent to obligation or duty.
What is inofficious in Tamil?
Inofficious in Tamil is பணிக்கடனற்ற. See Inofficious meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is inofficious?
Inofficious is an adjective.

Words near inofficious in the dictionary

  1. inoffensively
  2. inoffensiveness
  3. inofficial
  4. inofficially
  5. inofficiosity
  6. inofficious
  7. inofficiously
  8. inofficiousness
  9. inogatran
  10. inogen
  11. inogorodnie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inofficious (page history and authors); inofficious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inofficious (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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