Are Lazy and Indolent?

The difference between Indolent and Lazy. When used as adjectives, indolent means habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor/labour, whereas lazy means unwilling to do work or make an effort. Lazy is also noun with the meaning: a lazy person.

What is difference between indolent and lazy?

As adjectives the difference between lazy and indolent

is that lazy is unwilling to do work or make an effort while indolent is habitually]] lazy, [[procrastinate|procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor/labour.

How do you use indolent?

Indolent sentence example
  1. The natives were allowed to live the indolent life of the tropics. ...
  2. Evidently Peter was determined to tear his son away from a life of indolent ease. ...
  3. He lacked neither ambition nor capacity, but was indolent and only exerted himself spasmodically.
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