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