indolent
adjective/ˈɪndələnt/
/ˈɪndələnt/
(formal)- not wanting to work synonym lazyWord Originmid 17th cent.: from late Latin indolent-, from in- ‘not’ + dolere ‘suffer or give pain’. The sense ‘idle’ arose in the early 18th cent.
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