torpid
Meanings
Plural: torpids
Adjective Satellite
- slow and apathetic
- "a mind grown torpid in old age"
- in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
- "torpid frogs"
Adj
- unmoving
- dormant or hibernating
- lazy, lethargic or apathetic
Noun
- An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin torpidus (“tired, numb”).
Synonyms
abeyant, adiaphroistic, apathetic, apathistical, at rest, blasé, bone-idle, cessant, cool, crawling, creeping, dispassionate, dormant, dreich, dull, enervated, fallow, gallionic, gastropodous, glacial, halfhearted, heartless, heavy-footed, hibernating, idle, impassive, inactive, inanimate, inching, indifferent, indolent, ineffervescible, inert, insensible, insouciant, jaded, labored, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, Laodicean, latent, lazy, lead-footed, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lither, lotophagous, low-speed, lukewarm, lumbering, mopey, motionless, nonactive, nonchalant, nonplussed, phlegmatic, plodding, pococurante, pokey, ponderous, quiescent, sedent, sedentary, shiftless, silent, slothful, slothlike, slow, slow as a snail, slow as Christmas, slow as molasses, slow as molasses in January, slowfooted, sluggish, soggy, spiritless, stately, stationary, steady, still, stock-still, subglacial, sullen, supine, suspended, swear, tardigrade, tedious, tepid, testudineous, torpedinous, torpid, unactive, unaroused, unbusy, uncaring, unconcerned, unemployed, unenthusiastic, unimpressible, uninterested, unlively, unmoved, unmoving, unoccupied, unspeedy, untouched, unzealous, work-shy, world-weary
Scrabble Score: 9
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