Torpid Definition

tôrpĭd
adjective
Sluggish in functioning.
Webster's New World
Slow and dull; apathetic.
Webster's New World
Having lost temporarily all or part of the power of sensation or motion, as a hibernating animal; dormant.
Webster's New World
Conducive to sluggishness or inactivity, especially in being warm and humid.
A torpid summer evening.
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Origin of Torpid

  • Latin torpidus numbed, paralyzed from torpēre to be stiff ster-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin torpidus (“tired, numb")

    From Wiktionary

Torpid Sentence Examples

  • During the colder months these reptiles remain in a torpid state.

  • He became torpid, bloated and horrible to look at.

  • They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.

  • Under the influence of his disease, his senses became morbidly torpid, and his imagination morbidly active.

  • Once more that steady pull began, and once more I lay torpid a century of dragging seconds till my breast was naked again.

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TTOTOR

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DIDPID

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