torpid Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite slow and apathetic
    soggy; sluggish; inert.
    • she was fat and inert
    • a sluggish worker
    • a mind grown torpid in old age
  2. adjective satellite in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
    dormant; hibernating.
    • dormant buds
    • a hibernating bear
    • torpid frogs

WordNet

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

Webster 1913