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–adjective 

1. having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful (樹懶): an indolent person. 

2. Pathology. causing little or no pain; inactive or relatively benign: 



an indolent [ulcer] 

that is 

[not] painful and is [slow] to heal.  



—Synonyms 

1. slow, inactive, sluggish, torpid. See idle.



sluggish. Idle, indolent, lazy, slothful apply to a person who is not active. 



To be idle is to be inactive or not working at a job. The word is sometimes derogatory, but not always, since one may be relaxing temporarily or may be idle through necessity: pleasantly idle on a [vacation]; to be idle because one is unemployed or because supplies are lacking. 



The indolent person is naturally disposed to avoid exertion: indolent and [slow] in movement; an indolent and [contented] fisherman. 



The lazy person is averse [to] [exertion] or work, and esp. to continued application; the word is usually derogatory: too lazy to earn a living; [in]curably lazy. 



Slothful denotes a reprehensible unwillingness to carry one's share of the burden: so slothful as to be a burden on [others]. 



[re]prehensible

–adjective

deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.





　

Its season notwithstanding, Autumn Tale has more of a [summertime] indolence than the brisk pace of fall. 



But if the carefully planted romantic intrigue is serenely slow to ripen, the process is never [less] than intriguing. Events finally [reach] fruition at Émilia's wedding. 



This lengthy set piece is staged with Rohmer's mathematical plot construction and shot with an analytical eye—as well as the droll recognition that anything can happen at the marriage carnival. 





dormant

suggest the quiescence, sleep but may be roused to action

a dormant [volcano]

inert

dead matter, with no inherent power, unable, heavy or hard to move

an inert [mass], inert from [hunger]

sluggish 

cf. schlep slouch scalp 

slowness, doesn not move readily or vigorously

a sluggish [stream] [brain] 

torpid 

suspended physical powers, hibernate

[Snakes] are torpid in cold weather. 

Languid



loath (adj.)

She [was] loath to stay longer.

We were [nothing loath] to try the new game

[Nothing loath], we plunged in. 

loathe (v.)

He loath[e][s] asparagus. 

(ends in a voiced th sound and voices the final -s in its third person singular present tense)



loath (a.) (extreme) 

averse (a.) (long-held, not strong)

averse [to] [an idea]

averse [to] [getting] up early

I could've lived without Philip Seymour Hoffman as the centerpiece planet with two handfuls of wonderful female actors in his orbit but my Nicolas Cage [aversion] didn't stop me from [digging] Kaufman's Adaptation at first.

cf. 

advert (refer to, stuffy)

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