Indolent
adjective
Not liking to work or be active, lazy.
She led an indolent lifestyle, spending most of her day on the couch watching television.
Often appears as...
- indolent lifestyle
- indolent person
adjective
Causing little or no pain.
He has an indolent ulcer which does not cause him any discomfort.
Often appears as...
- indolent ulcer
- indolent tumors
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Formal
Academic
adjective
Growing or developing slowly.
The patient was diagnosed with indolent cancer, which is slow to progress and spread.
Often appears as...
- indolent cancer
- indolent disease
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adjective
Not liking to work or be active, lazy.
She led an indolent lifestyle, spending most of her day on the couch watching television.
Often appears as...
- indolent lifestyle
- indolent person
adjective
Causing little or no pain.
He has an indolent ulcer which does not cause him any discomfort.
Often appears as...
- indolent ulcer
- indolent tumors
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adjective
Growing or developing slowly.
The patient was diagnosed with indolent cancer, which is slow to progress and spread.
Often appears as...
- indolent cancer
- indolent disease
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Negatively Connoted
Seen as negative, suggesting a lack of ambition or drive.
His indolent approach to work resulted in a poor performance review.
Pro Tip 2/3Avoid in Formal Resumes
Don't use in self-descriptions for job applications, as it implies laziness.
Use 'relaxed' in your CV instead of 'indolent'.
Pro Tip 3/3Activity Level
Specifically refers to someone who avoids effort or movement.
Even simple chores are too taxing for an indolent individual.
Pro Tip 1/3Negatively Connoted
Seen as negative, suggesting a lack of ambition or drive.
His indolent approach to work resulted in a poor performance review.
Pro Tip 2/3Avoid in Formal Resumes
Don't use in self-descriptions for job applications, as it implies laziness.
Use 'relaxed' in your CV instead of 'indolent'.
Pro Tip 3/3Activity Level
Specifically refers to someone who avoids effort or movement.
Even simple chores are too taxing for an indolent individual.
Pro Tip 1/3Negatively Connoted
Seen as negative, suggesting a lack of ambition or drive.
His indolent approach to work resulted in a poor performance review.
Pro Tip 2/3Avoid in Formal Resumes
Don't use in self-descriptions for job applications, as it implies laziness.
Use 'relaxed' in your CV instead of 'indolent'.
Pro Tip 3/3Activity Level
Specifically refers to someone who avoids effort or movement.
Even simple chores are too taxing for an indolent individual.
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From death row to law...
These are changemakers who are being motivated not only to assist the most indolent in society, but also to help the inmates and others get access to justice.
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From death row to law...
These are changemakers who are being motivated not only to assist the most indolent in society, but also to help the inmates and others get access to justice.
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Quote examples
Mark Twain
American Writer
It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
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Rick Perlstein
American Historian
All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals from hard-working, taxpaying whites and gives the spoils to indolent, grasping blacks.
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Samuel George Morton
American Scientist
In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
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James Payn
English Novelist
The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.
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Anna Julia Cooper
American Educator
The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Irish Poet
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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Dorothea Dix
American Activist
With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.
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Deborah Eisenberg
American Writer
I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.
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John Philpot Curran
Irish Public Servant
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.
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Halldor Laxness
Icelander Writer
It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
Quote examples
Mark Twain
American Writer
It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
Quote examples
Rick Perlstein
American Historian
All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals from hard-working, taxpaying whites and gives the spoils to indolent, grasping blacks.
Quote examples
Samuel George Morton
American Scientist
In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
Quote examples
James Payn
English Novelist
The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.
Quote examples
Anna Julia Cooper
American Educator
The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
Quote examples
Oliver Goldsmith
Irish Poet
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
Quote examples
Dorothea Dix
American Activist
With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.
Quote examples
Deborah Eisenberg
American Writer
I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.
Quote examples
John Philpot Curran
Irish Public Servant
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.
Quote examples
Halldor Laxness
Icelander Writer
It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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