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# torpid

adjective (more torpid, most torpid)

«torpid» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Torpid means sluggish and inactive, as if asleep or too lazy and slow to move. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torpid/#m1)

### In the lessons

in stories, the torpid land is still and lifeless, with nothing moving, as if the world is asleep

### Examples

- After the big lunch, the dog lay torpid by the fire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torpid/#x1)
- The flowers were torpid in the heat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torpid/#x2)
- The people seemed torpid and slow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torpid/#x3)
- The snake was torpid in the cold morning. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torpid/#x4)

### Note

nothing for maths; it describes how lively something is and gives no amount.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «torpid» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torpid/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«torpid» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/torpid.html) on Mova free.