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INDOLENT DEFINITIONS - 10 definitions found
INDOLENT was my What's The Word? choice for Wednesday, May 20, 2009
indolent adj 1: disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger- on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy" [syn: faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy] 2: (of tumors, e.g.) slow to heal or develop and usually painless; "an indolent ulcer"; "leprosy is an indolent infectious disease" Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) indolent adjective Etymology: Late Latin indolent-, indolens insensitive to pain, from Latin in- + dolent-, dolens, present participle of dolēre to feel pain Date: 1663 1. a. causing little or no pain b. slow to develop or heal <indolent tumors> <indolent ulcers> 2. a. averse to activity, effort, or movement ; habitually lazy b. conducive to or encouraging laziness <indolent heat> c. exhibiting indolence <an indolent sigh> Synonyms: see lazy • indolently adverb Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary indolent Someone who is indolent is lazy. (FORMAL) ADJ English Explanatory Dictionary indolent ˈɪndələnt adj. 1 lazy; wishing to avoid activity or exertion. 2 Med. causing no pain (an indolent tumour). øøindolence n. indolently adv. [LL indolens (as IN-(1), dolere suffer pain)] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Indolent \In"do*lent\, a. [Pref. in- not + L. dolens, -entis, p. pr. of dolere to feel pain: cf. F. indolent. See Dolorous.] 1. Free from toil, pain, or trouble. [Obs.] 2. Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man. To waste long nights in indolent repose. --Pope. 3. (Med.) Causing little or no pain or annoyance; as, an indolent tumor. Syn: Idle; lazy; slothful; sluggish; listless; inactive; inert. See Idle. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms indolent a. 1. Lazy, slothful, inert, sluggish, inactive, listless, supine, lumpish, habitually idle. 2. Slowly operative, slow, sluggish, inactive, inert, acting slowly. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) indolent ˈɪndələnt adj. lazy, slothful, sluggish, idle, lethargic, shiftless, languorous, languid, torpid, inert, inactive, stagnant, fain÷ant, listless: 'Peel me a grape', she said in her most indolent manner. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 93 Moby Thesaurus words for "indolent": ambling, bone-lazy, cadging, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, dilatory, do-nothing, doless, dronish, drony, easy, easygoing, ergophobic, faineant, faltering, flagging, foot-dragging, gentle, good-for-nothing, gradual, halting, hobbled, hobbling, idle, inactive, inert, laggard, languid, languorous, lax, lazy, lazybones, lazyboots, lazylegs, leisurely, lethargic, lie-abed, limping, listless, lumbering, moderate, nonaggressive, parasitic, poking, poky, procrastinative, relaxed, reluctant, remiss, sauntering, scrounging, shiftless, shuffling, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, slugabed, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, sponging, staggering, stagnant, strolling, tentative, toddling, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unenterprising, unhurried, waddling, work-shy |
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