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词汇 indolent
释义 indolent
adjective
 literaryuk /ˈɪn.dəl.ənt/ us /ˈɪn.dəl.ənt/
showing no real interest or effort: 懒散的;懒惰的
an indolent wave of the hand懒懒的挥手
an indolent reply懒洋洋的答复
Synonyms
lazy
slothfulliterary
work-shyUKdisapproving
Opposites
hard-working
industrious
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

not willing to work or use effort
lazyHe's one of the laziest people I've ever met.
indolentSome of my classmates are indolent in their health habits.
slothfulTelevision and video games have bred a generation of slothful teens.
work-shyUKI don't want your work-shy cousin living with us indefinitely!
idleUKHe's an able student, just idle.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Laziness and lazy people
bludger
bone idleidiom
bum around
CBA
clock-watcher
deadbeat
indolently
layabout
lazily
laziness
lazy
lie
shirker
skiver
slacker
slackness
slob
unambitious
vegetable
work-shy

Related words


indolently
indolence

indolent | American Dictionary


indolent
adjective
 fmlus/ˈɪn·dəl·ənt/
without real interest or effort; lazy:
I was an indolent creature who could not imagine action.

Examples of indolent


indolent
Mediastinal infections in infants undergoing palliative staged procedures for congenital heart lesions may be chronic and indolent, resulting in delayed repair of congenital heart lesions.
This approach is possible because breast cancer in older women appears to be a more indolent disease.
In our experience, these infections frequently are chronic and indolent, and found inadvertently in infants undergoing staged procedures for hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
Pulmonary symptoms were the most common, and most patients had an indolent onset and progressive disease.
This information is vital in determining whether survival is primarily influenced by indolent tumour biology or by tumour eradication through surgery.
Median survival for early-stage chronic lymphatic leukaemia and indolent follicular lymphomas is in the order of 10 years.
She abhorred games of all kinds, suggesting that they appeal to the indolent without the imagination to invent their own learning and growing activities.
Only time will tell if slow progressive inflammatory changes will occur as the term "indolent" tends to imply.
This type of chronic, indolent infection in children, to our knowledge, has not been described.
The right answers are not listed for the indolent in an appendix.
Sometimes clashes arise, as between caring and idle children and children-in-law, or between a caring wife and an indolent husband or son.
Innocent because indolent, he was happy to botanize, and to record his daydreams in writing, and to recollect his past.
It is not due to bad labour relations or to indolent workers, who are so often scapegoats of ill-informed criticism.
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Day in and day out, my union members find that their hearing is being damaged by indolent employers, who will not silence their machines.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
He started by thinking him indolent, incompetent, and a bit of a nuisance.
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