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Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word TORPID
TORPID
Definitions of TORPID
- unmoving
- dormant or hibernating
- lazy, lethargic or apathetic
- (UK, Oxford University slang) An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using TORPID in a Sentence
- Times Richard Corliss panned the film, finding that "the comedy is slack, the song lyrics feeble, the pace torpid".
- Bonjour Tristesse is an elegant, ice cold, charade of emotions, completely artificial and eventually torpid.
- For the latter we are at present nobly exerting ourselves through all this extensive continent; and surely no one whose bosom feels the patriotic glow in behalf of civil liberty can remain torpid to the more ennobling flame of RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
- For the most part—indeed, for the sole part—Sirocco wafts a torpid tale of a slick, sneering gun-runner proving a painful thorn in a nice French colonel's side.
- He has been described as "an unquiet conscience of humanity, a witness, sometimes sorrowfully torpid, of the great and small events of the Man, though often a rebellious one who never surrendered to those trying to silence him" (Alessio Lega).
- Amongst the most widely admired works from his post-Darmstadt period are the Charles d'Orléans settings, Rondeaux per dieci (1963–64), which acquires a "torpid expressivity" through the juxtaposition of the coolness of an extremely high lyrical soprano voice and the resonance of the instrumental bass register.
- The threshold is guarded by shady Quies/ ?Hesychia (Quiet) and dull Oblivio/ Lethe (Forgetfulness) and torpid Ignavia/ Aergia (Sloth) with ever drowsy countenance.
Animals that are distinguished by a body cold and generally naked; stern and expressive countenance; harsh voice; mostly lurid color; filthy odor; a few are furnished with a horrid poison; all have cartilaginous bones, slow circulation, exquisite sight and hearing, large pulmonary vessels, lobate liver, oblong thick stomach, and cystic, hepatic, and pancreatic ducts: they are deficient in diaphragm, do not transpire (sweat), can live a long time without food, are tenatious of life, and have the power of reproducing parts which have been destroyed or lost; some undergo a metamorphosis; some cast (shed) their skin; some appear to live promiscuously on land or in the water, and some are torpid during the winter.
- The halting screenplay and Ralph Thomas' torpid, direction have drained the life out of Kevin Laffan's popular stage play, and no amount of back-up (Christmas for sentimentalists, John Cleese for sophisticates) can disguise the fact.
- The Observer felt that the album was a retreat of the "chilly synths and affectless monotone in torpid, ever-decreasing circles without even the sparks of energy that livened up this year’s Warlord album".
- " He cautioned that "At first it feels like torpid traipse through the doldrums, then all the dense fog suddenly fades and you find yourself in the centre of a vibrant coral reef, bursting with life and colour.
- " Kellman stated that the album consists of "mostly downcast verses and boastful non-sequiturs over torpid booming rhythms.
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