Visual Dictionary: Torpid
Welcome to Visual Dictionary, a series of posts about words that are better expressed in pictures.
Feeling torpid?
If you are lacking energy, such as after a big meal on a hot day, you could refer to yourself as torpid, listless, lethargic, or enervated.
If you are lazy all of the time, you could refer to yourself as indolent, slothful, or shiftless.
Choose your own answer to this Antonyms problem, then click “more.”
TORPID:
A. intractable
B. peppery
C. ineffable
D. indefatigable
E. intrepid
Torpid means sluggish, apathetic, lethargic. The answer is D, indefatigable, which means untiring.
“The Indefatigable Hippopotamus” would be an excellent name for a children’s book about an unlikely character, as well as an excellent challenge at a spelling bee.