Indolent - English meaning

adjective

Showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm, or concern.

Usage examples:

An apathetic electorate

adjective

Showing no interest or energy and unwilling to take action, especially over something important

Usage examples:

Young people today are so apathetic about politics., don't be so apathetic - how are you going to g…

adjective

Lacking interest or excitement.

Usage examples:

Your diet doesn't have to be dull and boring

verb

Make or become dull or less intense.

Usage examples:

Time dulls the memory

adjective

Not interesting or exciting; boring

Usage examples:

Many of the courtroom events were dull and routine., the lecture was dry, dull, and full of statist…

adjective

(of a person) avoiding work; lazy.

Usage examples:

Idle students

verb

Spend time doing nothing.

Usage examples:

Four men were idling outside the shop

adjective

Not working, not active, or doing nothing

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Idle factories, the machines are standing idle because there are no spare parts., idle speculation,…

adjective

Not engaging in or involving any or much physical activity.

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An inactive lifestyle

adjective

Doing nothing

Usage examples:

Knee surgery will keep him physically inactive for two months., about half of the club members are …

adjective

Doing nothing or not doing what you have usually done

Usage examples:

An inactive member of an advisory board, voters who have not participated in an election in three y…

adjective

Lacking the ability or strength to move.

Usage examples:

She lay inert in her bed

adjective

Not moving or not able to move

Usage examples:

The inert figure of a man lay in the front of the car., an inert gas

adjective

Lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy.

Usage examples:

A lackadaisical defence left spurs adrift in the second half

adjective

Lacking enthusiasm and effort

Usage examples:

The food wasn’t bad but the service was lackadaisical.

adjective

(of a person, manner, or gesture) having or showing a disinclination for physical exertion or effort.

Usage examples:

His languid demeanour irritated her

adjective

Lacking energy, or causing a lack of energy or enthusiasm

Usage examples:

He sat on the porch enjoying the delicious, languid warmth of a summer afternoon.

adjective

Not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful.

Usage examples:

Lax security arrangements at the airport

noun

Lacrosse.

Usage examples:

I wore pads and a helmet whenever i played lax

adjective

Lacking care, attention, or control; not severe or strong enough

Usage examples:

Security at the airport seemed lax., laxity in enforcing safety regulations can cost lives.

adjective

Unwilling to work or use energy.

Usage examples:

He was too lazy to cook

adjective

Affected by lethargy; sluggish and apathetic.

Usage examples:

I felt tired and a little lethargic

adjective

Lacking in energy; feeling unwilling or unable to do anything

adjective

Dead or apparently dead.

Usage examples:

His lifeless body was taken from the river

adjective

Dead or appearing to be dead

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A lifeless body, fig. the performance was boring and lifeless (= lacking interest or energy).

adjective

(of a person or their manner) lacking energy or enthusiasm.

Usage examples:

Bouts of listless depression

adjective

Tired and weak, and lacking energy or interest

Usage examples:

As the tennis match continued in the 90° heat, his play grew listless and he made a number of errors.

adjective

Used to describe an economy, stock market, etc. in which there is not much activity or trade

Usage examples:

Stocks closed mixed in listless trading ahead of saturday's presidential elections.

verb

Spend one's time in an aimless, idle way.

Usage examples:

Don't let him see you loafing about with your hands in your pockets

noun

A quantity of bread that is shaped and baked in one piece and usually sliced before being eaten.

Usage examples:

a loaf of bread

verb

Present participle of loaf

Usage examples:

Stop loafing (about/around) and get on with cleaning the windows!

adjective

Slow-moving and unexciting.

Usage examples:

A plodding comedy drama

verb

Walk doggedly and slowly with heavy steps.

Usage examples:

We plodded back up the hill

adjective

Slow, continuous, and not exciting

Usage examples:

I'll try not to bore you with lots of plodding details., the novel is heavy and plodding, with litt…

adjective

Lacking care or attention to duty; negligent.

Usage examples:

It would be very remiss of me not to pass on that information

adjective

Not doing a duty carefully or well enough

Usage examples:

I would be remiss if i didn’t mention it.

adjective

Characterized by laziness, indolence, and a lack of ambition.

Usage examples:

A shiftless lot of good-for-nothings

adjective

Not having determination or purpose

Usage examples:

He says only the shiftless are unemployed.

adjective

Not taut or held tightly in position; loose.

Usage examples:

A slack rope

noun

The part of a rope or line which is not held taut; the loose or unused part.

Usage examples:

I picked up the rod and wound in the slack

verb

Loosen (something, especially a rope).

Usage examples:

Slacking the outhaul allows you to adjust the sail

adjective

Lazy.

Usage examples:

Fatigue made him slothful

adjective

Moving or operating, or designed to do so, only at a low speed; not quick or fast.

Usage examples:

Until recently diesel cars were slow and noisy

adverb

At a slow pace; slowly.

Usage examples:

The train went slower and slower

verb

Reduce one's speed or the speed of a vehicle or process.

Usage examples:

The train slowed to a halt

adjective

Slow-moving or inactive.

Usage examples:

A sluggish stream

adjective

Mentally or physically inactive; lethargic.

Usage examples:

We sat around in a torpid state

plural noun

(at oxford university) a series of races for eight-oared rowing boats held in hilary term.

Usage examples:

In my first year i rowed in torpids

adjective

Not active; moving or thinking slowly, especially as a result of being lazy or feeling that you want to sleep

Usage examples:

If you have a sudden loss of cabin pressure at 20,000 feet, passengers will become torpid and then …

adjective

Disliking work and trying to avoid it when possible

Usage examples:

Most of the unemployed are not work-shy and genuinely do want jobs.