Indolent

a.	1.
	1.	Free from toil, pain, or trouble.
	2.	Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man. To waste long nights in indolent repose. - Pope.
	3.	(Med.) Causing little or no pain or annoyance; as, an indolent tumor.

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

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, inert, laggard, languid, languorous, lax, lazybones, lazyboots, lazylegs, leisurely, lethargic, lie-abed, limping, listless, lumbering, moderate, nonaggressive, parasitic, poking, poky, procrastinative, relaxed, reluctant, remiss, sauntering, scrounging, shiftless, shuffling, slack, 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, snail-paced, snaillike, sponging, staggering, stagnant, strolling, tentative, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unenterprising, unhurried, waddling, work-shy

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