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indolent

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As an adjective, indolent means habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor.

Meanings of indolent

6 meanings

adjective

  1. Habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor

    “The indolent girl resisted doing her homework.”

  2. Inducing laziness

    “indolent comfort”

  3. medicineCausing little or no physical pain; progressing slowly; inactive (of an ulcer, etc.)

  4. medicineHealing slowly

  5. Disinclined to work or exertion

    “faineant kings under whose rule the country languished”

    “an indolent hanger-on”

    “too lazy to wash the dishes”

    Similar: faineant, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy
  6. (of tumors, e.g.) slow to heal or develop and usually painless

    “an indolent ulcer”

    “leprosy is an indolent infectious disease”

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

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adjective: disinclined to work or exertion
faineantlazyotioseslothfulwork-shy

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