Torpid \Tor"pid\ (t[^o]r"p[i^]d), a. [L. torpidus, fr. torpere to be stiff, numb, or torpid; of uncertain origin.]

1. Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb. [1913 Webster]

Without heat all things would be torpid. --Ray. [1913 Webster]

2. Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive. --Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Torpid \Tor"pid\, n. [See Torpid, a.]

[Slang, Oxford University, Eng.]

1. An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

2. pl. The Lenten rowing races. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

139 Moby Thesaurus words for "torpid": Laodicean, Olympian, abeyant, abiding, aloof, apathetic, benumbed, blah, blase, bored, cataleptic, catatonic, changeless, comatose, constant, continuing, dead, debilitated, desensitized, detached, disinterested, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, durable, enduring, enervated, exanimate, faineant, firm, fixed, flat, foul, frozen, groggy, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, hopeless, immobile, immutable, in a stupor, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, intact, inviolate, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lasting, latent, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, logy, lumpish, moribund, motionless, nonchalant, numb, numbed, passive, permanent, perpetual, persistent, phlegmatic, pluckless, pococurante, pooped, quiescent, remaining, resigned, rigid, sated, sedentary, slack, sleeping, sleepy, slothful, slow, slow-moving, slow-paced, sluggish, slumbering, slumberous, smoldering, sodden, solid, somnolent, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, stable, stagnant, stagnating, standing, static, stationary, staying, steadfast, stoic, stultified, stupefied, stupid, supine, suspended, sustained, tame, unaltered, unaroused, uncaring, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, unconcerned, undestroyed, unfading, unfailing, uninterested, unshifting, unvaried, unvarying, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, withdrawn, world-weary

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

torpid adj
1: slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age" [syn: inert, sluggish]
2: in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation; "dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs" [syn: dormant, hibernating(a)]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Torpid \Tor"pid\, n. [See Torpid, a.]

[Slang, Oxford University, Eng.]

1. An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.

2. pl. The Lenten rowing races.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Torpid \Tor"pid\, a. [L. torpidus, fr. torpere to be stiff, numb, or torpid; of uncertain origin.]

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)