indolent
2
8.0
- adjective
- /ˈɪndələnt/
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indolente
- After spending all day on the couch, she felt indolent and unmotivated to do anything productive.
And that sense of uncertainty and lack of purpose actually creates this indolent feeling.
- And that sense of uncertainty and lack of purpose actually creates this indolent feeling.
Examples
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Climate in the New World, according to a best-selling French treatise translated into Dutch in 1775, made men listless and indolent; they might become happy but never stalwart.
Fiction book (1990) -
If the lady from downstairs could see him now, she would surely think him the most indolent, useless fellow on earth.
Blog text (7) -
And the indolent minister did nothing.
Academic text (1993) -
And that sense of uncertainty and lack of purpose actually creates this indolent feeling.
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Jimmy Carter might have been something of a jerk, but nobody thought him to be an indolent individual.
Blog text (7) -
We are also told that la jeunesse is too indolent to focus on such things as art.
Academic text (2009) -
There were three children in a group beyond him waiting as he held the ball; they were boys, bronzed and indolent.
Academic text (2007) -
The colonel's too indolent, and that good-for-nothing son of his is too selfish to give much thought to the family name.
Fiction book (1993) -
Doing it more than once a day is generally considered so slothful and indolent that people eye you warily when you pass them on the street.
Fiction book (2002) -
The Catholic Encyclopedia explains that a "lethargic and indolent tendency in respect to the ordinary industries of life" contrasts with a "recklessness in danger which has proved a valuable element in the military character of the people."
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
355
1.0
Not willing to work or make an effort
15
5.3
Being very tired and slow with little interest or energy
8
4.4
Not feeling interest or energy to do something
5
8.6
Showing little energy or interest and doing things slowly and carelessly
5
8.4
A person who is lazy and unwilling to work or try
4
2.3
Not moving and not showing much physical or mental energy
4
7.2
Not willing to work and often inactive
1
8.2
To move slowly and have little energy or interest
1
9.1
Very lazy and not willing to do any work or help
Unwilling to work or help
Not willing to work or make effort
Not willing to do a job or make an effort
Not willing to do any work most of the time
Tending to be lazy and preferring to sit or rest instead of move
Antonyms
How Lazy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Indolent comes from the Latin parts in- 'not' and dolere 'to feel pain'. A helpful way to remember the 'lazy' meaning is to think of someone who is 'not moved by pain' and so avoids effort, which is why indolent describes someone who is usually lazy and avoids work.