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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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undestroyed, unfading, unfailing, uninterested, unshifting, unvaried, unvarying, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, withdrawn, world-weary

Dictionary Results for torpid:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

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

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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]

3. 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.]

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