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torpid
1[ tawr-pid ]
torpid
2[ tawr-pid ]
noun
- an eight-oared, clinker-built boat used for races at Oxford University during the Lenten term.
torpid
/ ˈtɔːpɪd /
adjective
- apathetic, sluggish, or lethargic
- (of a hibernating animal) dormant; having greatly reduced metabolic activity
- unable to move or feel
Derived Forms
- ˈtorpidly, adverb
- torˈpidity, noun
Other Words From
- tor·pidi·ty torpid·ness noun
- torpid·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of torpid1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
They were torpid, as you or I might be if we’d spent a long period locked-down and socially isolated.
Cheng thinks modern ballots are “boring” and “graphically torpid.”
Torpid as Spain had become, there was still one point on which she was exquisitely sensitive.
I did not forget to mention the Companies, but find people, as I expected, torpid.
Its indolence, and anger at the stirring of inward strife by nature, caused it to assume a torpid indifference.
Professor Smawl ate heavily and retired to her tent to lie torpid until evening.
His torpid head fell back on the chair, and his outstretched hands hung lifeless, yellow, and rigid on his knees.
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