torpid

[Tor·pid]

While the adjective torpid sounds a lot like the noun torpedo, it actually describes something slow or even inactive, like the torpedo that's just sitting around before it's launched.

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Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb.

Adjective S.
slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age"

Adjective S.
in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation; "dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs"


a.
Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb.

a.
Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive.


Torpid

Tor"pid , a. [L. torpidus, fr. torpere to be stiff, numb, or torpid; of uncertain origin.] 1. Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb.
Without heat all things would be torpid.
2. Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive. Sir M. Hale.

Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb.

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