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# torpid

«torpid» in Mova's school dictionary: **sluggish and inactive, as if asleep or too lazy and slow…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more torpid, most torpid)

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torpid/#x1)
- The flowers were torpid in the heat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torpid/#x2)
- The people seemed torpid and slow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torpid/#x3)
- The snake was torpid in the cold morning. [tree →](https://md.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.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «torpid» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torpid/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.