[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

torpid \tor"pid\ t^or"pi^d, a. l. torpidus, fr. torpere
   to be stiff, numb, or torpid; of uncertain origin.
   1. having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling;
      numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb.
      1913 webster

            without heat all things would be torpid. --ray.
      1913 webster

   2. dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive. --sir m. hale.
      1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

torpid \tor"pid\, n. see torpid, a. slang, oxford
   university, eng.
   1. an inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.
      webster 1913 suppl.

   2. pl. the lenten rowing races.
      webster 1913 suppl.
see also:
torpid 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

torpid
     adj 1: slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish
            worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age" syn: inert,
             sluggish
     2: in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation;
        "dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs" syn:
         dormant, hibernatinga
see also:
inert sluggish dormant hibernatinga 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

139 moby thesaurus words for "torpid":
   laodicean, olympian, abeyant, abiding, aloof, apathetic, benumbed,
   blah, blase, bored, cataleptic, catatonic, changeless, comatose,
   constant, continuing, dead, debilitated, desensitized, detached,
   disinterested, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, durable,
   enduring, enervated, exanimate, faineant, firm, fixed, flat, foul,
   frozen, groggy, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, hopeless, immobile,
   immutable, in a stupor, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive,
   inanimate, indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, intact,
   inviolate, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lasting,
   latent, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, logy, lumpish,
   moribund, motionless, nonchalant, numb, numbed, passive, permanent,
   perpetual, persistent, phlegmatic, pluckless, pococurante, pooped,
   quiescent, remaining, resigned, rigid, sated, sedentary, slack,
   sleeping, sleepy, slothful, slow, slow-moving, slow-paced,
   sluggish, slumbering, slumberous, smoldering, sodden, solid,
   somnolent, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, stable, stagnant,
   stagnating, standing, static, stationary, staying, steadfast,
   stoic, stultified, stupefied, stupid, supine, suspended, sustained,
   tame, unaltered, unaroused, uncaring, unchangeable, unchanged,
   unchanging, unchecked, unconcerned, undestroyed, unfading,
   unfailing, uninterested, unshifting, unvaried, unvarying,
   vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, withdrawn, world-weary

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