Indolent vs Sedentary - What's the difference?
indolent | sedentary |
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.
Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
Not moving much; sitting around.
* Bishop Warburton
* Beaconsfield
(obsolete) inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil
* Milton
* Spectator
(obsolete) Caused by long sitting.
* Milton
As adjectives the difference between indolent and sedentary
is that indolent is habitually]] lazy, [[procrastinate|procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor/labour while sedentary is not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.indolent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The indolent girl resisted doing her homework.
Synonyms
* work-shy * See alsoAnagrams
*sedentary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The oyster is a sedentary''' mollusk; the barnacles are '''sedentary crustaceans.
- Sedentary , scholastic sophists.
- Any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect.
- The sedentary earth.
- The soul, considered abstractly from its passions, is of a remiss, sedentary nature.
- Sedentary numbness.