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English
Etymology
From Latin torpidus (“tired, numb”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
torpid (comparative more torpid, superlative most torpid)
- unmoving
- Synonyms: motionless, stock-still; see also Thesaurus:stationary
- dormant or hibernating
- Synonyms: latent, quiescent; see also Thesaurus:inactive
- lazy, lethargic or apathetic
- Synonyms: lethargic; see also Thesaurus:slow, Thesaurus:lazy, Thesaurus:apathetic
Quotations
Translations
lazy, lethargic, apathetic
Noun
torpid (plural torpids)
- (UK, Oxford University slang) An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.
- Coordinate term: slogger
1978, R. V. Jones, chapter 4, in Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945, London: Hamish Hamilton, page 37: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.
Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French torpide, from Latin torpidus.
Adjective
torpid m or n (feminine singular torpidă, masculine plural torpizi, feminine and neuter plural torpide)
- torpid
Declension