0 not active; moving or thinking slowly, especially as a result of being lazy or feeling that you want to sleep:
If you have a sudden loss of cabin pressure at 20,000 feet, passengers will become torpid and then lose consciousness.
Recent writers continue to undermine the stereotype of a torpid, unduly worldly establishment.
He suggested that the animals lived at or near the entrances to the fissures and that night-time storms could catch the torpid animals unaware.
It remains there quiescent, dormant and torpid in the hope that some day the waters will return.
Local authorities must stipulate, as they are often far too torpid to do now, such conditions in granting licences.
Rule by kindness without efficiency is torpid and doomed.
Here is a case of a rather torpid patient.
For a week at a time every man and woman and not a few of the children are drunk, some in a torpid and some in a raving condition.
And it is not only the stability—because there can be such a thing as a torpid stability—but the vitality of our society at which we aim.
