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单词 indolent
释义
indolent
adjective
literary
uk
/ˈɪn.dəl.ənt/us
/ˈɪn.dəl.ənt/
showingnorealinterestoreffort:
懒散的；懒惰的
an indolentwaveof thehand懒懒的挥手
an indolentreply懒洋洋的答复
Synonyms
lazy
slothfulliterary
work-shyUKdisapproving
Opposites
hard-working
industrious
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
not willing to work or use effort
  • lazyHe's one of the laziest people I've ever met.
  • indolentSome of my classmates are indolent in their health habits.
  • slothfulTelevision and video games have bred a generation of slothful teens.
  • work-shyUKI don't want your work-shy cousin living with us indefinitely!
  • idleUKHe's an able student, just idle.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Laziness and lazy people
  • bludger
  • bone idleidiom
  • bum around
  • CBA
  • clock-watcher
  • indolently
  • layabout
  • lazily
  • laziness
  • lazy
  • lie
  • shiftless
  • shirker
  • skiver
  • slacker
  • slackness
  • time-serving
  • unambitious
  • vegetable
  • work-shy
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indolently
indolence
(Definition ofindolentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

indolent| American Dictionary

indolent
adjective
fml
us
/ˈɪn·dəl·ənt/
withoutrealinterestoreffort;lazy:
I was an indolentcreaturewho could notimagineaction.
(Definition ofindolentfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofindolent

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Mediastinal infections in infants undergoing palliative staged procedures for congenital heart lesions may be chronic andindolent, resulting in delayed repair of congenital heart lesions.
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This approach is possible because breast cancer in older women appears to be a moreindolentdisease.
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In our experience, these infections frequently are chronic andindolent, and found inadvertently in infants undergoing staged procedures for hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
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Pulmonary symptoms were the most common, and most patients had anindolentonset and progressive disease.
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This information is vital in determining whether survival is primarily influenced byindolenttumour biology or by tumour eradication through surgery.
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Median survival for early-stage chronic lymphatic leukaemia andindolentfollicular lymphomas is in the order of 10 years.
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She abhorred games of all kinds, suggesting that they appeal to theindolentwithout the imagination to invent their own learning and growing activities.
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Only time will tell if slow progressive inflammatory changes will occur as the term "indolent" tends to imply.
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This type of chronic,indolentinfection in children, to our knowledge, has not been described.
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The right answers are not listed for theindolentin an appendix.
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Sometimes clashes arise, as between caring and idle children and children-in-law, or between a caring wife and anindolenthusband or son.
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Innocent becauseindolent, he was happy to botanize, and to record his daydreams in writing, and to recollect his past.
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It is not due to bad labour relations or toindolentworkers, who are so often scapegoats of ill-informed criticism.
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Day in and day out, my union members find that their hearing is being damaged byindolentemployers, who will not silence their machines.
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He started by thinking himindolent, incompetent, and a bit of a nuisance.
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