torpid

comparative more torpid · superlative most torpid

1. unmoving

   Synonyms: motionless, stock-still, at rest, dull, impassive, inanimate, lifeless, motionless

2. dormant or hibernating

   Synonyms: latent, quiescent, abeyant, at rest, cessant, dormant, dull, fallow

3. lazy, lethargic or apathetic

   Synonyms: lethargic, crawling, slack, slow-moving, languid, languorous, draggy, tardy

plural torpids

1. UKOxford University slangAn 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.

   1978, R. V. Jones, chapter 4, in Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945, London: Hamish Hamilton, page 37