What is another word for torpid?
Pronunciation:
[ tˈɔːpɪd], [ tˈɔːpɪd], [ t_ˈɔː_p_ɪ_d]
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Similar words for torpid:
- all (adjective)
- bloodless (adjective)
- callous (adjective)
- comatose (adjective)
- dead (adjective)
- dense (adjective)
- depressed (adjective)
- dopey (adjective)
- dormant (adjective)
- drowsy (adjective)
- dull (adjective)
- inactive (adjective)
- indifferent (adjective)
- indolent (adjective)
- inert (adjective)
- insensible (adjective)
- languid (adjective)
- latent (adjective)
- lazy (adjective)
- lazy, slow (adjective)
- lethargic (adjective)
- lifeless (adjective)
- listless (adjective)
- motionless (adjective)
- nodding (adjective)
- numb (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- paralyzed (adjective)
- sedentary (adjective)
- sleepy (adjective)
- slow (adjective)
- slow-footed (adjective)
- slow-going (adjective)
- slow-paced (adjective)
- sluggish (adjective)
- somnifacient (adjective)
- spiritless (adjective)
- stock-still (adjective)
- unconscious (adjective)
- weak (adjective)
- asleep (noun)
- hibernating (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- tired (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- comatose
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Torpid:
adj.
• all (adjective) • bloodless (adjective)- un emotional,
- un kinder,
- un kind,
- un-kind,
- un kindest,
- most anesthetic,
- more anesthetic,
- impassive,
- un-kindest,
- in-sensitive,
- in sensitive,
- un-emotional,
- un-kinder.
- most case-hardened,
- in-flexible,
- stubborn,
- un feeling,
- more toughened,
- un compassionate,
- in different,
- in-sentient,
- un-sympathetic,
- un-compassionate,
- un-affected,
- most indurated,
- in-different,
- hard bitten,
- most inured,
- in sensate,
- in flexible,
- case hardened,
- un-responsive,
- un caring,
- more inured,
- cold blooded,
- most case hardened,
- more case-hardened,
- un-bending,
- more indurated,
- un responsive,
- more case hardened,
- most toughened,
- un-feeling,
- un-susceptible,
- un-impressionable,
- un susceptible,
- thick skinned,
- un sympathetic,
- hard boiled,
- un-caring,
- un concerned,
- in-sensate,
- un bending,
- un impressionable,
- un affected,
- most casehardened,
- in sentient,
- un-concerned,
- thickskinned,
- more casehardened.
- dead to world,
- dead the world,
- dead world,
- drugged,
- out to lunch,
- most inconscious,
- more inconscious,
- more soporose,
- in-conscious,
- somnolent,
- out lunch,
- in conscious,
- out,
- most soporose.
- more slumbering,
- suspended,
- in-operative,
- more hibernating,
- more prepatent,
- most hibernating,
- most prepatent,
- pre-patent,
- more smoldering,
- more sidelined,
- out action,
- most slumbering,
- on shelf,
- in operative,
- most smoldering,
- on the shelf,
- most sidelined,
- pre patent.
- more lulling,
- most dozing,
- more napping,
- out it,
- most lulling,
- more dozing,
- doziest,
- napping,
- snooziest,
- dozier,
- soothing,
- most napping,
- snoozier.
- most imperceivable,
- un aware,
- most unimpressible,
- un-impressible,
- un impressible,
- more unimpressible,
- more imperceivable,
- Imperceivable,
- un-mindful,
- in-sensible,
- in sensible,
- un-aware,
- un-intelligible.
- in-firmest,
- uninterested,
- more sleepyhead,
- laidback,
- un-hurried,
- in-firmer,
- wimpier,
- blahsest,
- unenthusiastic,
- wimpiest,
- un-interested,
- un interested,
- more pining,
- un-enthusiastic,
- in firmer,
- most sleepyhead,
- more nebbish,
- more energyless,
- un hurried,
- blahser,
- most pining,
- un enthusiastic,
- in firmest,
- most energyless,
- most nebbish.
- laggard,
- in attentive,
- un-persevering,
- most slow moving,
- un persevering,
- more slow moving,
- unpersevering,
- most unindustrious,
- neglectful,
- in-attentive,
- more slowmoving,
- un-ready,
- most laggard,
- most slowmoving,
- unindustrious,
- more procrastinating,
- un energetic,
- more slow-moving,
- un industrious,
- un-energetic,
- more unpersevering,
- most unpersevering,
- slow moving,
- un-industrious,
- more unenergetic,
- more laggard,
- most procrastinating,
- un ready,
- asleep the job,
- more dallying,
- most unenergetic,
- most slow-moving,
- most dallying,
- asleep job,
- most unready,
- more unindustrious,
- more unready,
- slowmoving.
- leaden,
- passive,
- lackadaisical,
- static,
- stupid,
- slothful,
- benumbed,
- stagnant,
- indifferent,
- apathetic,
- sodden.
- lumpish,
- stretchy,
- lifeless,
- tired,
- leisurely,
- unhurried,
- phlegmatic,
- drooping,
- having spring fever.
- more nothing,
- more pabulum,
- more lusterless,
- most pabulum,
- most zero,
- more zero,
- prosier,
- most nothing,
- prosiest,
- prosy,
- most lusterless.
- in curious,
- dis-interested,
- in-curious,
- uncurious,
- dis interested,
- re-mote,
- most immobilized,
- most uncurious,
- more uncurious,
- be-numbed,
- un-curious,
- more immobilized,
- be numbed,
- un curious.
- Mopish,
- dead,
- half asleep,
- slumberish,
- dozy,
- Casehardened,
- languorous,
- somniferous,
- down in mouth,
- slumbery,
- Soporose,
- wimpy,
- languid,
- blind to,
- latent,
- heavy,
- somnifacient,
- in a trance,
- numb,
- feeling no pain,
- flat tire,
- dopy,
- slumbering,
- sleepy,
- deskbound,
- out of it,
- lymphatic,
- blahs,
- comatose,
- Drony,
- hardboiled,
- out cold,
- snoozy,
- case-hardened,
- MOPY,
- weak,
- sidelined,
- Unimpressible,
- dense,
- unready,
- dormant,
- callous,
- sluggish,
- lusterless,
- deaf to,
- energyless,
- desker,
- desk-bound,
- slowgoing,
- sleepyhead,
- cast down,
- slumbersome,
- down in the dumps,
- hardbitten,
- asleep on job,
- out like a light,
- inactive,
- slumberous,
- down in dumps,
- unenergetic,
- somnific,
- bloodless,
- closed down,
- motionless,
- out of action,
- drowsy,
- asleep on the job,
- laid back,
- lethargic,
- prepatent,
- dead to the world,
- listless,
- coldhearted,
- Mooney,
- sleepyheaded,
- lazy,
- coldblooded,
- on the canvas,
- paralyzed,
- dopey,
- sedentary,
- in firm,
- slow-moving,
- Inconscious,
- slow.
- deskest,
- most deskbound,
- most desk bound,
- more deskbound,
- most desk-bound,
- more desk-bound,
- desk bound,
- more desk bound.
n.
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•
- insensitive,
- wooden,
- awareness.
-
•
- action.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)- dull.
Other synonyms:
• comatose • Other relevant words (noun):- doughy,
- constant,
- frigid,
- sloughy,
- otiose,
- humdrum,
- colourless,
- bored,
- abiding,
- withdrawn,
- quaggy,
- cold,
- marshy,
- nonchalant,
- do-nothing,
- uninspiring,
- anaesthetized,
- soulless,
- unvarying,
- abject,
- heartless,
- vegetative,
- monotonous,
- lacklustre,
- droopy,
- unchangeable,
- Lusk,
- serene,
- poky,
- relaxed,
- debilitated,
- stale,
- unfeeling,
- run-down,
- continuing,
- immobile,
- aloof,
- sated,
- anaesthetic,
- slow-paced,
- squashy,
- uncaring,
- slow-footed,
- oscitant,
- frozen,
- unmoved,
- remaining,
- weary,
- steadfast,
- sleeping,
- faineant,
- permanent,
- Torporific,
- ho-hum,
- stable,
- persistent,
- shiftless,
- in a stupor,
- abeyant,
- sustained,
- unchecked,
- still,
- mat,
- disinterested,
- dry-as-dust,
- unaltered,
- quiescent,
- quiet,
- ponderous,
- Numbed,
- muddy,
- crawling,
- lasting,
- Pococurante,
- yawning,
- in suspense,
- obtuse,
- fixed,
- tiresome,
- swampy,
- senseless,
- soporific,
- Leuco-,
- waterlogged,
- blah,
- fatigued,
- peaceful,
- cataleptic,
- flat,
- enduring,
- Lethargical,
- insensate,
- wearisome,
- desensitized,
- inanimate,
- Pooped,
- tame,
- lagging,
- uninfluential,
- lax,
- jaded,
- tardy,
- vegetable,
- hopeless,
- uninteresting,
- dilatory,
- bovine,
- stoic,
- exhausted,
- moribund,
- immobilized,
- wan,
- Stagnating,
- Pluckless,
- enervated,
- exanimate,
- supine,
- unchanged,
- remiss,
- slack,
- deliberate,
- easy,
- undestroyed,
- rigid,
- Unshifting,
- blunt,
- stolid,
- stupefied,
- placid,
- resigned,
- unaroused,
- vapid,
- durable,
- Dronish,
- blase,
- immutable,
- unaffected,
- Torpedinous,
- unemotional,
- unconcerned,
- gradual,
- dawdling,
- Half-hearted,
- unvaried,
- changeless,
- miry,
- Chloroformed,
- neutral,
- plodding,
- creeping,
- standing,
- catatonic,
- maudlin,
- sulky,
- Stultified,
- Snail-like,
- unmoving,
- sloppy,
- firm,
- beat,
- Staying,
- boring,
- cold as charity,
- inviolate,
- solid,
- smoldering,
- Resting,
- tranquil,
- uninvolved,
- tedious,
- detached,
- stoned,
- boggy,
- foul,
- insentient,
- unchanging,
- lollygagging,
- heavy-lidded,
- unanimated,
- slow-going,
- logy,
- unfailing,
- intact,
- groggy,
- dreamy,
- unfading,
- stationary,
- uneventful,
- perpetual,
- world-weary,
- pacific,
- phlegmatical,
- mucky.
How to use "Torpid" in context?
The word "torpid" is derived from the ancient Greek word "torpion" which means "lying on one's back." The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) notes that the first recorded use of "torpid" in English occurred in 1597. The OED defines "torpid" as "dull, inactive, sluggish" and "prone to sleep or be overcome by sleep." The adjective "torpid" can describe someone who is lazy or inactive, or who is easily overcome by sleep. The noun "torpidness" refers to a state of being sluggish or inactive.
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