Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man
{s} slow, lazy, sluggish, inactive; (Medicine) that causes slightly or no pain, free of pain
slow to heal or develop and usually painless; "an indolent ulcer"; "leprosy is an indolent infectious disease
\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
Characterized by slow progression--a disease process or a tumor of low malignancy
Something inducing laziness (e.g. indolent comfort); causing scant or no physical pain; progressing slowly; inactive (of an ulcer, etc.)
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"
It is also formed from albuminous matter, together with skatol, by putrefaction, and by fusion with caustic potash, and is present in human excrement, as well as in the intestinal canal of some herbivora