torpid

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torpid

adjective more torpid · most torpid

  1. unmoving

    Similar: motionless, stock-still, at rest, dull, impassive, inanimate, lifeless, sedent, sedentary, stationary, still, torpid

  2. dormant or hibernating

    Similar: latent, quiescent, abeyant, at rest, cessant, dormant, dull, fallow, hibernating, idle, inactive, inert

  3. lazy, lethargic or apathetic

    Similar: lethargic, crawling, slack, slow-moving, languid, languorous, draggy, tardy, creeping, dreich, gastropodous, glacial

noun torpids

  1. UK An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat. 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.

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adj unmoving

한국어경직된 gyeongjikdoen
Françaisimmobile
Русскийнеподви́жный nepodvížnyj, онеме́лый onemélyj

adj dormant or hibernating

Русскийспя́щий spjáščij

adj lazy, lethargic, apathetic

Españoltorpe
Françaistorpide
Русскийвя́лый vjályj, апати́чный apatíčnyj

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@misc{torpid_2026,
  title = {torpid},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/torpid},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}