torpid

1. 1.

   slow and apathetic

   “she was fat and inert”

   “a sluggish worker”

   “a mind grown torpid in old age”

   Synonymsinertsluggishsoggy

   Similarinactive
2. 2.

   in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation

   “dormant buds”

   “a hibernating bear”

   “torpid frogs”

   Synonymsdormanthibernating

   Similarasleep

   biology

Other forms of torpid

comparative

torpidder·

superlative

torpiddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about torpid

What does torpid mean?

torpid means "slow and apathetic". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in torpid?

torpid has 2 syllables: tor-pid. The stress falls on "tor". In IPA it is /ˈtɔɹpəd/.

What is another word for torpid?

Close synonyms include inert, sluggish, soggy, dormant, hibernating. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is torpid a common word?

torpid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.