(tôr′pid) adjective
1. Having lost sensibility or power of motion, partially or wholly, as a hibernating animal.
2. Dormant; numb.
3. Sluggish; apathetic; dull. See synonyms under LIFELESS, NUMB. [<L torpidus <torpere be numb]
—tor·pid·i·ty (tôr·pid′ə·tē), tor′pid·ness noun
—tor′pid·ly adverb

(tôr′pid) noun
1. An eight–oared, clinker–built racing boat for the second crew at Oxford University; also, one of its crew.
2. plural The Lenten races in which such boats take part. [<TORPID¹; so called because the second crew consisted of awkward or very young oarsmen]