\IN-duh-luhnt\, adjective: 1 Avoiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive 2 Conducive to or encouraging laziness or inactivity 3 Causing little or no pain 4 Slow to heal, develop, or grow
disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"
[ -l&nt ] (adjective.) 1663. Late Latin indolent-, indolens insensitive to pain, from Latin in- + dolent-, dolens, present participle of dolEre to feel pain.