1. torpid - Noun
2. torpid - Adjective
3. torpid - Adjective Satellite
Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb.
Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age. Samuel Johnson
The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition. Carl Schmitt
My intention: healthy chaos, healthy amorphousness in a known medium which consciously warmed a cold, torpid form from the past, a convention of society, and which makes possible future forms. Joseph Beuys
Expel by reasoning the unrestrained grief of a torpid soul. Stobaeus
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand. Virginia Woolf