Indolent vs Dormant - What's the difference?
indolent | dormant |
Habitually]] lazy, [[procrastinate, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor/labour.
Inducing laziness (e.g. indolent comfort ).
(medicine) Causing scant or no physical pain; progressing slowly; inactive (of an ulcer, etc.).
(medicine) Healing slowly.
Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
* Burke
(heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
As adjectives the difference between indolent and dormant
is that indolent is habitually]] lazy, [[procrastinate|procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor/labour while dormant is inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.indolent
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The indolent girl resisted doing her homework.
Synonyms
* work-shy * See alsoAnagrams
*dormant
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Alternative forms
* dormaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.
- The bank account was dormant ; there had been no transactions in months.
- This volcano is dormant but not extinct.
- It is by lying dormant a long time, or being very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people.
- a lion dormant