indolent
1. In medicine, causing little or no pain; such as, a tumor.
2. Slow to heal, to grow, or to develop; for example, an ulcer; or a wound that heals very slowly.
3. Disinclined to exert oneself; habitually lazy.
4. Disliking work; lazy; idle: "The man was an indolent person who disliked any kind of exertion."
inesculent
Unedible; not for eating.
inopulent
Not opulent; not affluent or rich.
insolent
1. Showing an aggressive lack of respect in speech or behavior; disrespectful.
2. Presumptuous and insulting in manner or speech; arrogant.
3. Audaciously rude or disrespectful; impertinent.
4. Unrestrained by convention or propriety.
insolently
1. In an insolent manner.
2. Descriptive of rudeness and not showing respect.
3. With contemptuous pride; haughtily; rudely; saucily.
lutulent
Muddy, filthy, impure; turbid, thick.
malevolent
1. Desirous of evil to others; entertaining, actuated by, or indicative of ill-will; disposed or addicted to ill-will.
2. A person of evil wishes or designs; an evil influence.
mucoflocculent
Relating to a colloidal suspension in which mucus constitutes the semisolid phase.
mucopurulent
Containing, or composed of, both mucus and pus; such as, mucopurulent sputum.
oculentum
An eye ointment.
opulent
1. Characterized by an obvious lavish display of wealth, rich abundance, or affluence.
2. Possessing or exhibiting great wealth; being affluent; being ample; as, in richly abundant supply.
opulently
1. In a sumptuous and opulent manner.
2. Richly; with abundance or splendor.
puberulent
Covered with fine, downy hair, or lanugo (downy hair covering the body).
purulent
1. Suppurative; forming or containing pus.
2. Relating to, containing, or consisting of pus.
3. Containing, discharging, or causing the production of pus.
purulent exudate
An exudate (fluid that oozes out) containing neutrophils that have undergone necrosis in large number; pus.
An exudate is a fluid rich in protein and cellular elements that oozes out of blood vessels due to inflammation and is deposited in nearby tissues.
The altered permeability of blood vessels permits the passage of large molecules and solid matter through their walls. The vessels seem to weep, to "sweat", in keeping with the Latin exsudare, to sweat out, from which exudate is derived.
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