torpid

From Latin torpidus (“tired, numb”).

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torpid (comparative more torpid, superlative most torpid)

1. unmoving

   Synonyms: motionless, stock-still; see also Thesaurus:stationary

2. dormant or hibernating

   Synonyms: latent, quiescent; see also Thesaurus:inactive

3. lazy, lethargic or apathetic

   Synonyms: lethargic; see also Thesaurus:slow, Thesaurus:lazy, Thesaurus:apathetic

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• torpidity
• torpidness

• torpor
• torpedo

torpid (plural torpids)

1. (UK, Oxford University slang) An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.

   Coordinate term: slogger

   • 1978, R. V. Jones, chapter 4, in Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945, London: Hamish Hamilton, page 37:

     In our first year I had seen him coming away from Blackwell's clutching a great textbook of chemistry with an air of anticipatory delight, and also on the river as cox of one of the Lincoln torpids.

• tripod

Borrowed from French torpide, from Latin torpidus.

torpid m or n (feminine singular torpidă, masculine plural torpizi, feminine and neuter plural torpide)

1. torpid