torpid

adjective

Sluggish, lethargic, or inactive.

adjective

Showing little interest; apathetic.

adjective

Conducive to sluggishness or inactivity, especially in being warm and humid.

adjective

Dormant; hibernating.

Benumbed; insensible; inactive.

Specifically, dormant, as an animal in hibernation or estivation, when it passes its time in sleep: as, a torpid snake.

Figuratively, dull; sluggish; apathetic.

Pertaining to the torpids, or Lent boat-races at Oxford. See II.

noun

A second-class racing-boat at Oxford, corresponding to the slogger of Cambridge; also, one of the crew of such a boat.