torpid
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Etymology
Pronunciation
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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
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Translations
unmoving
dormant or hibernating
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.
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Etymology
Adjective
torpid m or n (feminine singular torpidă, masculine plural torpizi, feminine and neuter plural torpide)
Declension
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