Torpid

Definition: Torpid

Torpid

Adjective

1. Slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age".

2. (biology) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation; "dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs".

Date "torpid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Torpid

Synonyms: dormant (adj), hibernating(a) (adj), inert (adj), sluggish (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inactivity	Indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk, remiss, slack, inert, torpid, sluggish, otiose, languid, supine, heavy, dull, leaden, lumpish; exanimate, soulless; listless; drony, dronish; lazy as Ludlam's dog.
Insensibility	Apathetic; leuco-, phlegmatic; dull, frigid; cold blooded, cold hearted; cold as charity; flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific; sleepy; (inactive); languid, half-hearted, tame; numbed; comatose; anaesthetic; stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned; palsy-stricken.
Physical Inertness	Adjective: inert, inactive, passive; torpid; sluggish, dull, heavy, flat, slack, tame, slow, blunt; unreactive; lifeless, dead, uninfluential.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Torpid

English words defined with "torpid": dormouse ♦ hibernation ♦ inert, Inexcitable ♦ sleep, sluggish ♦ Toppescent, Torpedinous, Torpent, Torpify. (references)

Etymologies containing "torpid": Toppescent, torpor. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The cobweb : a torpid neglect (reference) The Torpid Duke (Harlequin Regency Romance) (reference) Torpid Smoke: The Stories Of Vladimir Nabokov. (Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics 35) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Ralph Waldo Emerson	The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Upon the whole, however, there was something torpid and insignificant, in the appearance at least, of Jean Valjean.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Torpid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Torpid" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	26	68,323

Language		Translations for "torpid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		jo aktiv (inactive, passive), i topitur (blunt, dopey, dopy, dull, listless, obtuse, unpointed), i plogësht (inactive), i ngathët (angular, atonic, awkward, clumsy, cubbish, dawdler, dead, dead alive, dull, dullish, footless, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, heavy, heavy-handed, hulking, inept, laggard, languid, left handed, lubberly, lumbering, lymphatic, maladroit, oafish, pedestrian, poky, quick, shiftless, slack, ungainly, unhandy, unmoved, unready, unwieldy, wooden), i mpirë (asleep, benumbed, dead, inert, lame, muscle bound, numb, obtuse, stale), i fjetur (dormant, lethargic, sleeping, sleepy, stagnant), apatik (apathetic, apathetical, dead alive, listless). (various references)

Arabic		‏مسبت, ‏مخدر (anaesthetic, anaesthetized, anesthetic, anesthetized, benumbed, dope, doped, drug, drugged, narcosis, narcotic, narcotized, opiate, pain killer, somnolent, soporific, stupefied, stupid), ‏خامل (idle, inactive, lazy, sleepy, sluggish), ‏خادر, ‏خدر (anaesthesia, anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthesia, anesthetize, benumb, creep, deaden, drug, look out, narcotize, numb, numbness, opiate, stupefaction, stupefy, stupor, torpor), ‏بليد (bovine, dim, doltish, dopey, dull, inanimate, lethargic, light minded, lumpish, obtuse, passive, silly, sleepy, slow, slow moving, sluggish, stupid, thick-headed, unworkable). (various references)

Bulgarian		тъп (asinine, blunt, bovine, cloddish, crass, dense, dim, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dull, dumb, gross, hollow, impenetrable, lumpish, muddle-headed, obtuse, opaque, puddingy, purblind, slow, sodden, stupid, thick, thick-headed, thick-witted, unpointed, wooden-headed), вял (colorless, colourless, dead alive, half hearted, indolent, insipid, lackadaisical, leaden, lifeless, remiss, slow), вцепенен (numb, stuporous), в състояние на летаргия, апатичен (apathetic, apathetical, inanimate, languid, lethargic, listless, spiritless, vacant), безстрастен (apathetic, apathetical, cold-livered, dispassionate, impassible, impassive, passionless, stolid), безчувствен (harsh, indurate, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, senseless, stockish, stolid, unfeeling), бездушен (exanimate, heartless, indurate, niminy-piminy, soulless, spiritless, toneless, unanimated, unsympathetic), бездеен (helter-skelter, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, inoperative, passive, sluggish, supine). (various references)

Czech		tupý (blunt, brutish, cloddish, dense, dozy, dull, empty headed, indocile, mindful, obtuse, pointless, stolid, stupid, thickheaded, vacant, vacuous), strnulý (constrained, fixed, numb, rigid, stiff), mdlý (dull, faint, flat, languid, pale, sapless, sick, sickly, vapid, wan, watery), chabý (faint, frail, lame, threadbare, vapid, wan, weedy), apatický (apathetic, glassy, lethargic, listless). (various references)

Danish		torpidt ulcus (torpid ulcer), torpid granulation (torpid granulations). (various references)

Dutch		ulcus torpidum (torpid ulcer), granulationes torpidae (torpid granulations). (various references)

Farsi		سست (Atonic, Effeminate, Feckless, Floppy, Frail, Groggy, Inactive, Indolent, Insecure, Languid, Lax, Lethargic, Loose, Mild, Rattletrap, Remiss, Rickety, Shaky, Slack, Sleazy, Slender, Slothful, Supine, Tardy, Tepid, Weak), طوقی , طوقه دار, خوابیده (Asleep, Recumbent, Resting, Sleeper), بیحال (Insensate, Lethargic, Passive, Supine), بی حس (Dead, Stolid, Vapid). (various references)

French		torpide, engourdi. (various references)

German		träge (dull, idle, idly, indolent, indolently, inert, inertly, languid, languidly, languorous, languorously, lazily, lazy, lethargic, lethargically, phlegmatic, shiftless, slack, slothful, slow, sluggardly, sluggish, stagnant, supine, supinely, tardy), schlaff (baggy, drooping, exhausted, flabbily, flabby, flaccid, flaccidly, floppily, floppy, lax, limp, limply, listless, loose, shattered, slack, slacky, soft, worn out). (various references)

Greek		ναρκώδησ (stuporous), ναρκωμένοσ (dopey, numb). (various references)

Hebrew		א�"יש (apathetic, inactive, indifferent, inert, lackadaisical, listless, sluggish, unconcerned), חסר תחוש�" (insensate, numb). (various references)

Hungarian		zsibbadt (benumbed, numb, numbed), tunya (bovine, inactive, laggard, languid, lazy, slack, slothful, sluggard, sluggish, stolid). (various references)

Italian		torpido, inerte (inert, motionless, passive), apatico (apathetic, apathetical, half hearted, lackadaisical). (various references)

Manx		magganeagh (cramped, numb, numbing), kyrloghe (benumb, cramped, insensible, numb, sleeping), gyn vree (expressionless, feeble, impotent, ineffective, ineffectual, inexpressive, inoperative, invalid, lethargic, sapless, vigourless, void), dromm (drowsy, dull). (various references)

Pig Latin		orpidtay

Portuguese		tórpido, inativo (deedless, dormant, idle, inactive, passive, slothful, stagnant, supine, unemployed, unplaced, work-shy), entorpecido (numb, rusty, slumberous, stupid), dormente (dormant, numb, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), com torpor, adormecido (asleep, numb, sleeper, sleeping, slumberous). (various references)

Romanian		leneş (bum, dull, easeful, easy going, idle, Idler, idly, lazily, lazy, lazybones, loafer, loiterer, otiose, shiftless, slothful, sluggard, sluggish, truant, vacant), apatic (apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, indifferent, indolently, insensible, lackadaisical, lackadaisically, languid, languidly, listless, moony, sleepy, sluggish, supine, tardy), amorţit (asleep, benumbed, dead, numb), adormit (benumbed, dead, dopey, dormant, drowsy, drowsyhead, dullard, enervated, flat, mope, sleeper, sleepily, sleeping, sleepy, sluggish, tame). (various references)

Russian		вялый (apathetic, apathetical, dopey, dopy, drowsy, exanimate, flabby, flaccid, flat, indolent, inert, insipid, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lethargic, listless, remiss, saggy, sapless, slack, sluggish, spiritless, stolid). (various references)

Scottish		marbh (dead, late, lifeless, slay, tasteless : na mairbh, vapid). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		trom (bovine, heavy-footed, indolent, lackadaisical, laggard, leaden, listless, logy, otiose, slow, sluggish), ukočen (numb, prim, stiff, stodgy). (various references)

Spanish		torpe (awkward, blockish, blundering, bumbling, butterfingered, butterfingers, clumsy, duffer, dull, dullish, fathead, heavy, labored, laboured, left handed, left-hander, logy, lumberingly, rough, shiftless, slow witted, slowcoach, slowpoke, stodgily, thick, wall eyed), apático (apathetic, apathetical, bleak, languid, languorous, listless), aletargado (heavy). (various references)

Swedish		domnad. (various references)

Turkish		tembel (asleep, bonelazy, do nothing, do-little, drone, gold brick, idle, idle fellow, Idler, inactive, indolent, inert, laggard, languid, languorous, lazy, lazy person, lazybones, loon, lounger, slack, slacker, slothful, slouch, slug, sluggard, sluggish, stagnant, tired, workshy), uyuşuk (asleep, benumbed, bonelazy, bovine, dormant, drowsy, happy, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, lazy, lethargic, lethargical, numb, poky, quiescent, slack, slacker, sleepy, slothful, slouching, slouchy, soggy, stick in the mud, supine), uyuşmuş (asleep, benumbed, dopey, numb, under the influence of drugs), hissiz (apathetic, apathetical, benumbed, bloodless, callous, crass, cruel, devoid of feelings, dispassionate, down to earth, impassible, impassive, indifferent, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, numb, senseless, soulless), cansız (apathetic, apathetical, bloodless, colorless, dead, dead pan, dying, exanimate, feckless, flagging, heartless, inanimate, lackadaisical, lackluster, lacklustre, languid, lifeless, listless, poky, sapless, singsong, sluggish, soulless, spiritless, stagnant, toneless, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy). (various references)

Ukrainian		онімілий (asleep, numb), бездіяльний (deedless, dormant, easeful, effortless, inactive, indolent, killed, otiose, shiftless, vacuous). (various references)

Vietnamese		trì độn (dopey, dopy, opaque, slow-witted), mê mụ; lười biếng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	segnes, torpidus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "torpid": torpidities, torpidity, torpidly, torpids. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Torpid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atrypid, Orplid, teroid, tirpit, toirid, topid, topit, Topra, toprid, toraid, torcid, torid, torip, torir, toroids, torpe, torped, Torpids, torroid, Torvil, troid, tropin, tropio, Tropix, tupid, turdid, turid, turpid. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "torpid" (pronounced tô"rpud)
3	-p u d	bicuspid, Cupid, intrepid, lipid, rapid, stupid, tepid, tricuspid, vapid.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: tripod.
	Words within the letters "d-i-o-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: dript, droit, dropt.
	-2 letters: dipt, dirt, doit, dorp, drip, drop, port, prod, riot, roti, tiro, topi, tori, trio, trip, trod, trop.
	-3 letters: dip, dit, dor, dot, opt, ort, pit, pod, poi, pot, pro, rid, rip, rod, rot, tip, tod, top, tor.
	-4 letters: do, id, it, od, op, or, pi, ti, to.
	Words containing the letters "d-i-o-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: diopter, dioptre, disport, parotid, peridot, proteid, torpids, tripods, tripody.
	+2 letters: depictor, diopters, dioptral, dioptres, dioptric, dipteron, disports, drypoint, imported, parodist, parotids, parotoid, peridots, piedfort, podiatry, profited, proteide, proteids, protoxid, riposted, topsider, torpidly, triploid, tripodal, tripodic, trophied.
	+3 letters: atrophied, depictors, deporting, depositor, dipterous, disported, dripstone, droopiest, droplight, drypoints, expeditor, outpriced, parodists, parotoids, perdition, peridotic, piedforts, podiatric, portioned, predation, predictor, prosodist, proteides, protoxids, provident, pterygoid, redeposit, reposited, terpenoid, topsiders, torpidity, trapezoid, triploids, triploidy, tripodies.
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