Torpid \Tor"pid\ (t[^o]r"p[i^]d), a. [L. torpidus, fr. torpere
to be stiff, numb, or torpid; of uncertain origin.]
1. Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling;
numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb.
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Without heat all things would be torpid. --Ray.
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2. Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive. --Sir M. Hale.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Torpid \Tor"pid\, n. [See Torpid, a.] [Slang, Oxford
University, Eng.]
1. An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. pl. The Lenten rowing races.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
torpid
adj 1: slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish
worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age" [syn: inert,
sluggish]
2: in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation;
"dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs" [syn:
dormant, hibernating(a)]
WordNet (r) 2.0
139 Moby Thesaurus words for "torpid":
Laodicean, Olympian, abeyant, abiding, aloof, apathetic, benumbed,
blah, blase, bored, cataleptic, catatonic, changeless, comatose,
constant, continuing, dead, debilitated, desensitized, detached,
disinterested, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, durable,
enduring, enervated, exanimate, faineant, firm, fixed, flat, foul,
frozen, groggy, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, hopeless, immobile,
immutable, in a stupor, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive,
inanimate, indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, intact,
inviolate, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lasting,
latent, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, logy, lumpish,
moribund, motionless, nonchalant, numb, numbed, passive, permanent,
perpetual, persistent, phlegmatic, pluckless, pococurante, pooped,
quiescent, remaining, resigned, rigid, sated, sedentary, slack,
sleeping, sleepy, slothful, slow, slow-moving, slow-paced,
sluggish, slumbering, slumberous, smoldering, sodden, solid,
somnolent, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, stable, stagnant,
stagnating, standing, static, stationary, staying, steadfast,
stoic, stultified, stupefied, stupid, supine, suspended, sustained,
tame, unaltered, unaroused, uncaring, unchangeable, unchanged,
unchanging, unchecked, unconcerned, undestroyed, unfading,
unfailing, uninterested, unshifting, unvaried, unvarying,
vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, withdrawn, world-weary
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
dormant, hibernating(a), inert, sluggish
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