indolent

Speech parts

1. indolent - Adjective

2. indolent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Free from toil, pain, or trouble.

Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man.

Causing little or no pain or annoyance; as, an indolent tumor.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

idle lazy slothful work-shy inert inactive sluggish listless faineant otiose slack heavy sleepy idler phlegmatic
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Antonyms

grindstone pert religious potential active animal
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Phrases with the word

be indolent indolent individual indolent person

Anagrams

deltonin nontiled

Examples

In indolent vacuity of thought. William Cowper

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish. Jules Verne

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man. Hilaire Belloc

If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic. Gertrude Stein

Always the fact remains that to the mentally indolent this book may well seem a volume of disconnected short stories. All of us being more or less mentally indolent, this possibility constitutes a dire fault. James Branch Cabell

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent. Oliver Goldsmith

Close letter words and terms

indolence indolency indolenine indolent individual indolent lesion of epithelial origin indolent person