indolent
IN-duh-luntadjMeaning lazy; unwilling to work or make an effort
Memory hook lies IN all day: IN-dolent. The chore list grows longer every day, but Jonah stays sprawled on the sofa, too idle to lift a finger: he is indolent.
The indolent cat watched the mouse run past without even lifting its head.
In context Though he was clever, the indolent student never finished an assignment, preferring to nap in the library rather than do any work at all.
Similar lazy, idle, slothful, sluggish
Opposite industrious, diligent, energetic
From Late Latin indolens, “feeling no pain”: in- (not) + dolere (to suffer); in English it came to mean “not troubling oneself,” and so lazy.