indolent
C2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Habitually lazy and averse to any exertion.
He spent the indolent afternoon dozing in a hammock while the work piled up.
Medicine adjective
Causing little pain and progressing slowly.
Cutaneous tuberculosis often presents as an indolent, painless ulcer that is easily overlooked.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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