Etymology

indolent

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Today it means: Habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor. Full definition →

French indolent ← Late Latin indolēns
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  1. Late Latin · borrowed fromindolēns
  2. French · borrowed fromindolent
  3. English todayindolent

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.

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