Associations to the word «Indolent»

Wiktionary

INDOLENT, adjective. Habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor/labour.
INDOLENT, adjective. Inducing laziness (e.g. indolent comfort).
INDOLENT, adjective. (medicine) Causing scant or no physical pain; progressing slowly; inactive (of an ulcer, etc.).
INDOLENT, adjective. (medicine) Healing slowly.

Dictionary definition

INDOLENT, adjective. 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".
INDOLENT, adjective. (of tumors, e.g.) slow to heal or develop and usually painless; "an indolent ulcer"; "leprosy is an indolent infectious disease".

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