indolent
lazy or avoiding effort
Roots
- dol / dolor: pain, grief, or suffering
- im- / in- (not): not or without
Other words with the dol / dolor root
- condolence: an expression of sympathy after loss
- doleful: sad or mournful
Indolent once leans toward not troubled by pain; now it means too comfortable with inaction.
The indolent committee delayed every decision until someone else did the work.
Indolent needs care because the modern meaning is not pain-free in a medical sense. The useful shift is from untroubled ease into laziness: no urgency, no exertion, no push.