Meaning & use
indolently
In a lazy manner, showing an unwillingness to exert effort.
See it in a sentence
He lay indolently in the hammock all afternoon while the others worked in the garden.
The cat stretched indolently in the sun before drifting back to sleep.
A note on using this word
Indolently is a literary word, often used to evoke a scene of comfortable, unhurried laziness rather than simple tiredness.
Words with a similar meaning
lazilyidly
Choose a synonym to suit the sentence. Meanings can overlap without being identical.
Words with an opposite meaning
energeticallydiligently
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