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語源

From French indolent or directly from Late Latin indolēns, from in- (“not”) +‎ dolēns (“hurting”), from doleo (“to hurt”). The later sense of “living easily, slothful” perhaps developed in French.

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈɪn.də.lənt/

形容詞

indolent (comparative more indolent, superlative most indolent)

1. Habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor.

   The indolent girl resisted doing her homework.

   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 18:

     Mr. Churchill has pride; but his pride is nothing to his wife’s: his is a quiet, indolent, gentlemanlike sort of pride that would harm nobody, and only make himself a little helpless and tiresome; but her pride is arrogance and insolence!

   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 466:

     […] the obscurities of his text are not due so much to inherent philosophical difficulties as to Lenin's indolent and superficial approach and his contempt for all problems that could not be put to direct use in the struggle for power.

2. Inducing laziness.

   indolent comfort

3. (medicine) Causing little or no physical pain; progressing slowly; inactive (of an ulcer, etc.).
4. (medicine) Healing slowly.

同意語

• idle, work-shy; see also Thesaurus:lazy

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アナグラム

• deltonin, nontiled