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 →

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 →
• The flowers were torpid in the heat. tree →
• The people seemed torpid and slow. tree →
• The snake was torpid in the cold morning. tree →

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.