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Date: 1600-1700
Language: Latin
Origin: torpidus, from torpere 'to be stiff or without feeling'

torpid

 adjective
     
tor‧pid formal
not active because you are lazy or sleepy:
a torpid mind
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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