Indolent Definition

ĭndə-lənt

adjective

Disliking or avoiding work; lazy; idle.

Webster's New World

Disinclined to exert oneself; habitually lazy.

American Heritage Medicine

Conducive to inactivity or laziness; lethargic.

Humid, indolent weather.

American Heritage Medicine

Causing little or no pain.

An indolent cyst.

Webster's New World

Slow to heal.

An indolent ulcer.

Webster's New World

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Origin of Indolent

Late Latin indolēns indolent- painless Latin in- not in–¹ Latin dolēns present participle of dolēre to feel pain

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From French indolent, from Latin indolentem, from in- (“not”) + dolēns (“pain”)

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