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indolent

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
12
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈɪn.də.lənt/ (UK)

Definition of indolent

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor.
    “The indolent girl resisted doing her homework.”
    “Mr. Churchill has pride; but his pride is nothing to his wife’s: his is a quiet, indolent, gentlemanlike sort of pride that would harm nobody, and only make himself a little helpless and tiresome; but her pride is arrogance and insolence!”
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adj

  1. Habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor.
    “The indolent girl resisted doing her homework.”
    “Mr. Churchill has pride; but his pride is nothing to his wife’s: his is a quiet, indolent, gentlemanlike sort of pride that would harm nobody, and only make himself a little helpless and tiresome; but her pride is arrogance and insolence!”
  2. Inducing laziness.
    “indolent comfort”
  3. Causing little or no physical pain; progressing slowly; inactive (of an ulcer, etc.).
  4. Healing slowly.

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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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