torpid
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8.2
- adjective
- /ˈtɔːrpɪd/
- We overtook the occasional bus belching smoke or a lorry lisping with billowing hay; we blasted through bustling towns and torpid villages.
- become torpid
Examples
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The evening was thick and torpid, and everyone wore T-shirts, white or gray.
Academic text (1999) -
Set a time limit, though; memories can pull you into a torpid remove from work.
Academic text (2010) -
We are different now, torpid in the way we enter and leave.
Fiction book (1997) -
Washington is exaggerating the situation in order to arouse this torpid Congress into action.
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Hardy, this book should cure every torpid liver and chronic grouch in America.
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Though somewhat torpid after his meal, Mr. DiTaranto was unwilling to let the visitor wander off.
Fiction book (2001) -
The window next to her table was open, and the warm air was damp, musty, with a torpid movement that was more like an exhalation than a breeze.
Fiction book (2002) -
Under fluffy clouds pushed by a torpid breeze, Houston struck Teresa like some hypermodernist's depiction of Venice, before that lamented city's final submergence.
Fiction book (1990) -
After a long day at work, I felt torpid and had no energy to go out with friends.
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The summer heat made her feel torpid, and all she wanted to do was lie on the couch.
Synonyms
35
3.9
Moving or working slowly and with little energy
23
4.1
Feeling very tired and having no energy
15
4.0
Not active now but alive and able to become active again, for example a volcano or seed
15
6.2
Showing little interest or enthusiasm
15
5.3
Being very tired and slow with little interest or energy
13
5.5
Not moving and without the energy or will to act
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2.3
Not moving and not showing much physical or mental energy
5
3.7
Feeling weak and tired as if you do not have energy
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8.6
Showing little energy or interest and doing things slowly and carelessly
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8.0
Not wanting to work or try hard
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7.6
Slow and boring so you feel tired
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9.9
A person who is slow in thinking and low in energy
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7.8
Feeling slow and without energy
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6.8
Feeling slow and without energy after being tired or ill
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8.0
Less active than usual in the body or mind
Feeling very tired and unable to do much
Showing boredom by yawning or being very sleepy
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word torpid comes from an old Latin word torpere that means 'to be numb' or 'stiff', and you can also see the same root in the English word torpor. So, torpid describes someone or something that is slow, inactive, or with little energy, like a body that feels numb and cannot move quickly.