Torpid

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Sluggish, lethargic, or inactive.
  • adjective. Showing little interest; apathetic.
  • adjective. Conducive to sluggishness or inactivity, especially in being warm and humid.
  • adjective. Dormant; hibernating.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Benumbed; insensible; inactive.
  • Specifically, dormant, as an animal in hibernation or estivation, when it passes its time in sleep: as, a torpid snake.
  • Figuratively, dull; sluggish; apathetic.
  • Pertaining to the torpids, or Lent boat-races at Oxford. See II.
  • noun. A second-class racing-boat at Oxford, corresponding to the slogger of Cambridge; also, one of the crew of such a boat.
  • noun. plural The Lent boat-races at Oxford.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed.
  • adjective. Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive.
  • noun. An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.
  • noun. The Lenten rowing races.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. unmoving, dormant or hibernating
  • adjective. lazy, lethargic or apathetic
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
  • adjective. slow and apathetic
  • Word Usage
    "So in continued fevers, when the stomach is totally torpid, which is known by the total aversion to solid food, the cutaneous capillaries are by reverse sympathy in a perpetual state of increased activity, as appears from the heat of the skin."
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    asleep  inactive  
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