indolent
adjUK, US /ˈɪn.də.lənt/
Etymology From French indolent or directly from Late Latin indolēns, from in- (“not”) + dolēns (“hurting”), from doleo (“to hurt”). The later sense of “living easily, slothful” perhaps developed in French.
1
Habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor.
- The indolent girl resisted doing her homework.
- Mr. Churchill has pride; but his pride is nothing to his wife’s: his is a quiet, indolent, gentlemanlike sort of pride that would harm nobody, and only make himself a little helpless and tiresome; but her pride is arrogance and insolence!1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 18:
2
Inducing laziness.
- indolent comfort
3
Medicine, Sciences Causing little or no physical pain; progressing slowly; inactive (of an ulcer, etc.).
4
Medicine, Sciences Healing slowly.
- Synonyms
- idle, work-shy
- Derived terms
- indolent lesion of epithelial origin, indolently