Indolent
['ɪnd(ə)l(ə)nt] or ['ɪndələnt]
Definition
(adj.) (of tumors, e.g.) slow to heal or develop and usually painless; 'an indolent ulcer'; 'leprosy is an indolent infectious disease' .
Editor: Mervin--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Free from toil, pain, or trouble.
(a.) Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man.
(a.) Causing little or no pain or annoyance; as, an indolent tumor.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Lazy, slothful, inert, sluggish, inactive, listless, supine, lumpish, habitually idle.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ACTIVE]
Edited by Clare
Definition
adj. indisposed to activity.—ns. In′dolence In′dolency.—adv. In′dolently.
Editor: Upton
Examples
- They were all thoughtless or indolent. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- As bad in their way as the indolent gipsy-giantess, the Cleopatra, in hers. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The gentleman he addressed, who was talking to Mrs. Bounderby on the sofa, got up, saying in an indolent way, 'Oh really? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- To which, the butcher's boy: who appeared of a lounging, not to say indolent disposition: replied, that he thought not. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He will grow more and more indolent and careless? Plato. The Republic.
- Curse your indolent worthlessness, why don't you rob your church? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He seems to be conscientiously afraid of appearing indolent, and in consequence subjects himself regularly to unnecessary hardship. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But her father set too high a standard, and too abstract a view, before the indolent invalid. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I was too indolent, you know: else I might have been anywhere at one time. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This accident roused the little indolent Meyler to pay me unusual attention for the next several weeks. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In his hand he held a long, legal document which he was reading in an indolent fashion, blowing rings of tobacco smoke from his lips as he did so. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Caliphronas laughed at the indolent character ascribed to his countrymen, which, however, he could not deny with any great show of reason. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Not an uncommon case when people are indolent. Plato. The Republic.
- But it was as if she too had shifted her place, and he still saw her, between himself and the trees, drooping over the fire with her indolent smile. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- St. Clare was indolent and careless of money. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Th ese artificial divisions of time are accepted so unquestioningly that to ask a reason for them may, to an indolent mind, seem almost absurd. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But indolent she is, reckless she is, and most ignorant; for she does not know her dreams are rare, her feelings peculiar. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Life here is charming and indolent. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I was resisting the soft influences of the climate as well as I could, and endeavoring to overcome the desire to be indolent and happy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I am the king of an indolent race. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He had carried his cup to the fireplace, and stood leaning against the chimney-piece and looking down on her with an air of indolent amusement. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- They are indolent, as a general thing, and yet have few pastimes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Upton