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What (who) is indolent - definition
indolent
['?nd(?)l(?)nt]
¦ adjective
1. wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy.
2. Medicine (of an ulcer or other disease condition) slow to develop or heal.
Derivatives
indolence noun
indolently adverb
Origin
C17: from late L. indolent-, from in- 'not' + dolere 'suffer or give pain'.
Indolent
·adj Free from toil, pain, or trouble.
II. Indolent ·adj Causing little or no pain or annoyance; as, an indolent tumor.
III. Indolent ·adj Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man.
indolent
a.
1.
Lazy, slothful, inert, sluggish, inactive, listless, supine, lumpish, habitually idle.
2.
Slowly operative, slow, sluggish, inactive, inert, acting slowly.
Examples of use of indolent
1. What we have is not a sickening society but one which is becoming institutionally indolent.
2. Thompson says his cancer is an indolent‘‘ version that has given him no sickness.
3. Members of the cabinet more resemble hamsters on a wheel than they do indolent sloths.
4. The middle class prided itself as the productive class, in contrast to indolent aristocrats and an ill–disciplined working class.
5. Four years ago, he was diagnosed with non–Hodgkin‘s lymphoma (NHL), a slow–growing or indolent cancer of the lymphatic system.