Thesaurus: indolent
Free from toil, pain, or trouble.
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- 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.
- adj. disinclined to work or exertion
- adj. (of tumors, e.g.) slow to heal or develop and usually painless
- 1. Free from toil, pain, or trouble. [Obs.] 2. Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man. To waste long nights in indolent repose. Pope. 3. (Med.) Causing little or no pain or annoyance; as, an indolent tumor. Syn. -- Idle; lazy; slothful; sluggish; listless; inactive; inert. See Idle.
- Causing little or no pain or annoyance; as, an indolent tumor.
- j:100 s. (of tumors, e.g.) slow to heal or develop and usually painless