Associations to the word «Indolent»

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.

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".