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Indolent definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IN'DOLENT, a. Habitually idle or indisposed to labor; lazy; listless; sluggish; indulging in ease; applied to persons.
1. Inactive; idle; as an indolent life.
2. Free from pain; as an indolent tumor.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

adjective Etymology: Late Latin indolent-, indolens insensitive to pain, from Latin in- + dolent-, dolens, present participle of dol?re 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 Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 lazy; wishing to avoid activity or exertion. 2 Med. causing no pain (an indolent tumour). Derivatives: indolence n. indolently adv. Etymology: LL indolens (as IN-(1), dolere suffer pain)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Someone who is indolent is lazy. (FORMAL) ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Lazy, slothful, inert, sluggish, inactive, listless, supine, lumpish, habitually idle. 2. Slowly operative, slow, sluggish, inactive, inert, acting slowly.

Moby Thesaurus

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