torpid
Plural: torpids
Adjective Satellite
- slow and apathetic
- "a mind grown torpid in old age"
- in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
- "torpid frogs"
Adj
- unmoving
- dormant or hibernating
- lazy, lethargic or apathetic
Noun
- A type of racing boat designed for speed.
- An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.
Examples
- Playing TORPID felt like a slow, sluggish move, but it positioned him for a bigger word.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin torpidus (“tired, numb”).
Synonyms
dormant, hibernating, inert, sluggish, soggy, Laodicean, abeyant, adiaphroistic, apathetic, apathistical, at rest, blasé, bone-idle, cessant, cool, crawling, creeping, dispassionate, dreich, dull, enervated, fallow, gallionic, gastropodous, glacial, halfhearted, heartless, heavy-footed, idle, impassive, inactive, inanimate, inching, indifferent, indolent, ineffervescible, insensible, insouciant, jaded, labored, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, latent, lazy, lead-footed, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lither, lotophagous, low-speed, lukewarm, lumbering, mopey, motionless, nonactive, nonchalant, nonplussed, phlegmatic, plodding, pococurante, pokey, ponderous, quiescent, sedent, sedentary, shiftless, silent, slothful, slothlike, slow, slow as Christmas, slow as a snail, slow as molasses, slow as molasses in January, slowfooted, spiritless, stately, stationary, steady, still, stock-still, subglacial, sullen, supine, suspended, swear, tardigrade, tedious, tepid, testudineous, torpedinous, torpid, unactive, unaroused, unbusy, uncaring, unconcerned, unemployed, unenthusiastic, unimpressible, uninterested, unlively, unmoved, unmoving, unoccupied, unspeedy, untouched, unzealous, work-shy, world-weary
Scrabble Score: 9
torpid: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtorpid: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
torpid: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary