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 ]

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

    [ Syn: dormant , hibernating ]

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