Word Meanings - INDOLENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Causing little or no pain or annoyance; as, an indolent tumor. Syn. -- Idle; lazy; slothful; sluggish; listless; inactive; inert. See Idle. (more info) 1. Free from toil, pain, or trouble. 2. Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion;

Additional info about word: INDOLENT

Causing little or no pain or annoyance; as, an indolent tumor. Syn. -- Idle; lazy; slothful; sluggish; listless; inactive; inert. See Idle. (more info) 1. Free from toil, pain, or trouble. 2. Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man. To waste long nights in indolent repose. Pope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INDOLENT)

• Idle
• Void
• unoccupied
• waste
• vain
• empty
• unemployed
• useless
• inactive
• lazy
• indolent
• Inert
• Indolent
• slothful
• sluggish
• heavy
• passive
• dormant
• Listless
• Indifferent
• careless
• uninterested
• vacant
• languid
• supine
• lackadaisical
• torpid
• heedless
• Sluggish
• Slow
• inert
• phlegmatic
• Iazy
• Supine
• Lazy
• indifferent
• listless
• negligent
• inattentive
• otiose

Related words: (words related to INDOLENT)

• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• INDIFFERENTLY
  In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• SUPINE
  1. Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone. 2. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined. If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills supine. Dryden. 3. Negligent; heedless; indolent;
• VACANTLY
  In a vacant manner; inanely.
• PASSIVE FLIGHT
  Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
• PHLEGMATICALLY
  In a phlegmatic manner.
• INERTIA
  That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; - - sometimes called vis inertiæ. 2. Inertness;
• UNEMPLOYED
  1. Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
• PHLEGMATICLY
  Phlegmatically.
• NEGLIGENTLY
  In a negligent manner.
• OTIOSE
  Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle. "Otiose assent." Paley. The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and unAlford.
• INATTENTIVE
  Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit. I. Watts. Syn. -- Careless; heedless; regardless; thoughtless; negligent; remiss; inadvertent.
• WASTE
  the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w, D. woest, 1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into
• DORMANT
  In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant. Dormant partner , a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a
• HEAVY-HEADED
  Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• RESUPINE
  Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless. Sir K. Digby. He spake, and, downward swayed, fell resupine, With his huge neck aslant. Cowper.
• IMPASSIVE
  Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
• FOREWASTE
  See GASCOIGNE
• TOP-HEAVY
  Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton.