Indolent vs Futile - What's the difference?
indolent | futile | Related terms |
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.
Incapable of producing results; useless; not successful; not worth attempting.
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Indolent is a related term of futile.
As adjectives the difference between indolent and futile
is that indolent is habitually]] lazy, [[procrastinate|procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor/labour while futile is incapable of producing results; useless; not successful; not worth attempting.indolent
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The indolent girl resisted doing her homework.
Synonyms
* work-shy * See alsoAnagrams
*futile
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Adjective
(en adjective)Shamrock Rovers 0-4 Tottenham, passage=Goals from Steven Pienaar, Andros Townsend, Jermain Defoe and Harry Kane sealed the win, but Rubin Kazan's 1-1 draw against PAOK Salonika rendered Spurs' efforts futile .}}
