adj.: wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy.

[changeling]

ORIGIN Latin, from in- ‘not’ + dolere ‘suffer or give pain’.¹

I should be doing numerous things today: working on my Editing Assignment, due in part this Thursday; working on my work for Photography; designing the website for The Fat Lady Digest; hell, even working on my novel. I'm doing none of these.

Though I may start on the website, the least necessary of these.

¹ AskOxford.com

Comments

[notfudge.livejournal.com]

*nudges*
Do!

[jolly-oddness.livejournal.com]

How strange that the origin is sort of opposite to the current meaning. How do you think it happened? Is laziness so painful that...well, ok I suppose it is sometimes.