Indolent: Definition and part of speech

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Indolent

  1. a. Causing little or no pain or annoyance; as, an indolent tumor.
  2. a. Free from toil, pain, or trouble.
  3. a. Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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