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indolent

UK/ˈɪn.də.lənt/

indolent adjective: habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor.

Adjective

indolent (comparative more indolent, superlative most indolent)

  1. Habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor.
    • The indolent girl resisted doing her homework.
    • Mr. Churchill has pride; but his pride is nothing to his wife’s: his is a quiet, indolent, gentlemanlike sort of pride that would harm nobody, and only make himself a little helpless and tiresome; but her pride is arrogance and insolence!1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 18
  2. Inducing laziness.
    • indolent comfort
  3. Causing little or no physical pain; progressing slowly; inactive (of an ulcer, etc.).
  4. Healing slowly.

indolent meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

indolent in Urdu

آرام پسند, آرام طلب, کاہل, کام چور, سست

indolent in Bengali

কাজে অত্যন্ত অলস, অকর্মণ্য, শ্রমবিমুখ

indolent in Malayalam

മടിയുള്ള, വേല ചെയ്യാത്ത, സുഖലോലുപനായ, അലസമായ

indolent in Kannada

ಸೋಮಾರಿತನದ, ಮೈಗಳ್ಳತನದ, ಪಾಲುಮಾರಿಕೆಯ, ಮಯ್ಗಳ್ಳತನದ, ಸೋಂಬತನದ
More languagesFewer languages
indolent in Odia
ଗଧା gadhā

Examples of indolent in a sentence

  • 'It's just natural for the folks here to be indolent,' she said.
  • And so in his indolent way he drifted gradually into the habit and became a confirmed "pipe-hitter."
  • It was such a day as one dreams about, with that pleasant warmth in the air that makes for indolent content.

All 10 example sentences with indolent

Synonyms of indolent

Forms of indolent

comparativemore indolent
superlativemost indolent

Origin of indolent

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.

Words formed from indolent

Questions about indolent

What does indolent mean?
Indolent means habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor.
What is indolent in Urdu?
Indolent in Urdu is آرام پسند, آرام طلب, کاہل. See Indolent meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is indolent?
Indolent is an adjective.
How do you pronounce indolent?
Indolent is pronounced /ˈɪn.də.lənt/ (UK).

Words near indolent in the dictionary

  1. indolences
  2. indolencies
  3. indolency
  4. indolenine
  5. indolenines
  6. indolent
  7. indolent lesion of epithelial origin
  8. indolently
  9. indolepropionamide
  10. indolequinone
  11. indolequinones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: indolent (page history and authors); indolent (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); indolent (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); indolent (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); indolent (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଗଧା (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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