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Indolent

adj

Definitions

Adjective

1
Habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor.
"The indolent girl resisted doing her homework."
2
Inducing laziness.
"indolent comfort"
3
Causing little or no physical pain; progressing slowly; inactive (of an ulcer, etc.).
4
Healing slowly.

Adjective

1
(of tumors, e.g.) slow to heal or develop and usually painless wordnet
2
disinclined to work or exertion wordnet

Etymology

From French indolent or directly from Late Latin indolēns, from in- (“not”) + dolēns (“hurting”), from doleo (“to hurt”). The later sense of “living easily, slothful” perhaps developed in French.

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