torpid

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It is true that great public fermentations awaken and adopt many geniuses who in more torpid times would have had no chance to work.

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Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of torpid gathered in one view.

adjective

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

adjective

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for torpid.

adjective

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

adjective

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

Example sentences

It is true that great public fermentations awaken and adopt many geniuses who in more torpid times would have had no chance to work.

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

Here’s another article on them, and it asks, in so many words, “Why is new drug development so comparatively torpid when app development is so torrid?”.

Personally, I think that the husband was lucky to last as long as he did without succumbing to torpid disillusionment with himself, his potentialities, and his powers.

I spent a while reading the author's stories from the road, and what I found most interesting was the disdain the author expressed for "unenlightened" midwesterners, who are "intellectually torpid".

Yes, I worked in "anti-piracy" for some years and that whole industry is a mass of delusions of adequacy, coupled to a client base of some of the most morally torpid, personally horrible people I've ever encountered.