indolent

Meanings

1. Habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor.
2. Inducing laziness.
3. Causing little or no physical pain; progressing slowly; inactive (of an ulcer, etc.).
4. Healing slowly.

Etymology

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.