Indolent means lazy, and unwilling to exert yourself. An indolent afternoon, indolent and charming, indolent by nature.
It is gentler than lazy and often faintly admiring of somebody unhurried. In medicine it means slow-growing and painless, so an indolent tumour is one causing no symptoms, which comes from the Latin for not hurting.
1adjectiveindolentLazy, and unwilling to exert yourself.
“The indolent young man spent his days lying in bed while his mother did all the work.”
indolent is a quality.
Latin indolens means not feeling pain, from in- plus dolere, to hurt.
Proto-Indo-European
*delh₁-
Latin
indolēns
French
indolent
English, today
indolent
Built from
From French indolent or directly from Latin indolēns, from in- + dolēns, from doleo (“to hurt”). The later sense of “living easily, slothful” perhaps developed in French.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA