All 3 Uses of
indolent
in
Middlemarch
- You clever young men must guard against indolence.†
Chpt 1 *indolence = laziness
- I was too indolent, you know: else I might have been anywhere at one time.†
Chpt 1indolent = lazy
- Partly it was the reception of his own artistic production that tickled him; partly the notion of his grave cousin as the lover of that girl; and partly Mr. Brooke's definition of the place he might have held but for the impediment of indolence.†
Chpt 1indolence = laziness
Definitions:
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(1)
(indolent as in: she is naturally indolent) lazy; disinclined to work
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Indolent is also used in medicine to describe conditions (e.g., some tumors) that are slow to develop or heal and are painless. Very rarely it may refer to something that is slow and unenergetic without any connotation of laziness--such as small lapping waves.