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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

ambling, bone-lazy, cadging, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, dilatory, do-nothing, doless, dronish, drony, easy, easygoing, ergophobic, faineant, faltering, flagging, foot-dragging, gentle, good-for-nothing, gradual, halting, hobbled, hobbling, idle, inactive, inert, laggard, languid, languorous, lax, lazy, lazybones, lazyboots, lazylegs, leisurely, lethargic, lie-abed, limping, listless, lumbering, moderate, nonaggressive, parasitic, poking, poky, procrastinative, relaxed, reluctant, remiss, sauntering, scrounging, shiftless, shuffling, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, slugabed, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, sponging, staggering, stagnant, strolling, tentative, toddling, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unenterprising, unhurried, waddling, work-shy

Dictionary Results for indolent:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

indolent
    adj 1: 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" [syn: faineant, indolent,
           lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy]
    2: (of tumors, e.g.) slow to heal or develop and usually
       painless; "an indolent ulcer"; "leprosy is an indolent
       infectious disease"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Indolent \In"do*lent\, a. [Pref. in- not + L. dolens, -entis, p.
   pr. of dolere to feel pain: cf. F. indolent. See Dolorous.]
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   1. Free from toil, pain, or trouble. [Obs.]
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   2. Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually
      idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man.
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            To waste long nights in indolent repose. --Pope.
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   3. (Med.) Causing little or no pain or annoyance; as, an
      indolent tumor.

   Syn: Idle; lazy; slothful; sluggish; listless; inactive;
        inert. See Idle.
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