|
torpid
has definitions from the field of biology
|
|
| 1 |
[ adjective ] slow and apathetic
Examples "she was fat and inert" "a sluggish worker" "a mind grown torpid in old age" Used in print (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)Or was he now taking the role - the gesture and the suffering - because it was the only way to affirm his history and identity in the torpid , befogged loneliness of this land . Related terms |
| 2 |
[ adjective ] (biology) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
Synonyms Examples "dormant buds" "a hibernating bear" "torpid frogs" |
| * |
|