Associations to the word «Indolent»
Noun
Adjective
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".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.