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adj
unmoving
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: motionless, stock-still, at rest, dull, impassive, inanimate, lifeless, sedent, sedentary, stationary, still, torpid, unmoved, unmoving
Antonyms: none provided
adj
dormant or hibernating
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: latent, quiescent, abeyant, at rest, cessant, dormant, dull, fallow, idle, inactive, inert, languid, nonactive, passive, silent, sedent, sedentary, slow, suspended, torpid, unactive, unbusy, unemployed, unoccupied
Antonyms: none provided
adj
lazy, lethargic or apathetic
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: lethargic, crawling, slack, slow-moving, languid, languorous, draggy, tardy, creeping, dreich, gastropodous, glacial, heavy-footed, inching, inert, labored, leaden, lead-footed, low-speed, lumbering, plodding, pokey, ponderous, slothlike, slow, slow as a snail, slow as Christmas, slow as molasses, slow as molasses in January, slowfooted, sluggish, stately, steady, subglacial, sullen, tardigrade, tedious, testudineous, torpid, turtleish, turtlesque, unspeedy, bone-idle, fainéant, idle, indolent, lackadaisical, lazy, lither, otiose, slothful, swear, work-shy, adiaphroistic, apathetic, apathistical, blasé, blithe, deaf, cool, shiftless, dispassionate, dull, enervated, gallionic, halfhearted, heartless, impassive, ineffervescible, insouciant, indifferent, insensible, jaded, Laodicean, listless, lotophagous, lukewarm, meh, mopey, nonchalant, nonplussed, phlegmatic, pococurante, spiritless, supine, tepid, torpedinous, unaroused, uncaring, unconcerned, unenthusiastic, unimpressible, uninterested, unlively, unmoved, untouched, unzealous, world-weary
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Qualifier: Oxford University slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
slow and apathetic
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: inert, sluggish, soggy
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: dormant, hibernating(a)
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree Latin torpeō Proto-Indo-European *dheh1-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin torpidus English torpid From Latin torpidus (“tired, numb”).
Across languages
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
