Word Meanings - TORPID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TORPID)

• Dead
• Defunct
• deceased
• departed
• gone
• inanimate
• lifeless
• insensible
• heavy
• unconscious
• dull
• spiritless
• cheerless
• deserted
• torpid
• still
• Drowsy
• Heavy
• drooping
• sleepy
• dozy
• comatose
• stupid
• somnolent
• Listless
• Indifferent
• careless
• uninterested
• vacant
• languid
• indolent
• supine
• lackadaisical
• heedless
• Stagnant
• Motionless
• currentless
• tideless
• unflowing
• uncirculating
• quiescent
• Supine
• Lazy
• indifferent
• listless
• inactive
• negligent
• inattentive
• sluggish
• otiose

Related words: (words related to TORPID)

• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• LIFELESS
  Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless
• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• DROOPER
  One who, or that which, droops.
• UNCONSCIOUS
  1. Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man. Cowper. 2. Not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an unconscious
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• DROWSY
  1. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. "When I am drowsy." Shak. Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak. To our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. Lowell. 2. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
• INSENSIBLENESS
  Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
• INDIFFERENTLY
  In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
• UNFLOWER
  To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• SUPINE
  1. Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone. 2. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined. If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills supine. Dryden. 3. Negligent; heedless; indolent;
• VACANTLY
  In a vacant manner; inanely.
• STILLSTAND
  A standstill. Shak.
• DEPARTMENTAL
  Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
• STILLING
  A stillion.
• DROOPINGLY
  In a drooping manner.
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• INSTILL
  To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
• PISTILLIFEROUS
  Pistillate.
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• DISTILLATION
  The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• FINESTILLER
  One who finestills.