torpid

Word family

LAZYnot active because you are lazy or sleepy 迟钝的，懒散的；昏昏欲睡的，有气无力的

a torpid mind

迟钝的头脑

Examples from the Corpus

torpid• Unsurprisingly, refugees often fell into a torpid dependency, which did not bode well for the future.• In front of him the torpid lizards stirred in their cage on the picture box.• A lime-green chameleon, stretching from fence to shrub in torpid motion, beguiled us.• By 1976, the union had become torpid, old, and bureaucratic.• For nearly half-an-hour nothing happened, no sound broke the torpid silence of the village citadel.• The evolutionary advantage of this is that the animal need not lie around in a torpid state, vulnerable to attack.

Origin torpid

(1600-1700) Latin torpidus, from torpere “to be stiff or without feeling”

Chinese

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Corpus

TOEFL BNC: 35344 COCA: 32220

torpid

Tired: tired, exhausted, sleepy...