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Sluggish, lacking in energy or vigor

Idle or lazy, slow to move or act

Feeling tired or sleepy

Desensitized or numb to any feeling, sensation or emotion

Slow in pace or speed

Stationary, immobile, or not moving

Lacking vigor, vitality, or excitement

Showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others

Tending to spend too much time seated

Dull, sluggish, or ugly

Not awake and aware of and responding to one's environment

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Adjective

Sluggish, lacking in energy or vigor

lacking in energy

having spring fever

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“Tamsin stretched out with a groan, feeling torpid and lazy.”

Adjective

Idle or lazy, slow to move or act

undemonstrative

could care less

couldn't care less

don't give a damn

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“But there are still many passive, uneducated, inert, mentally and physically torpid workers.”

Adjective

Feeling tired or sleepy

asleep on one's feet

hardly able to keep one's eyes open

worn to a frazzle

dead on one's feet

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“The ailment causes great distress to the sufferer, who lies torpid in bed, because walking or even moving is attended with great pain.”

Adjective

Desensitized or numb to any feeling, sensation or emotion

desensitized^US

anesthetized^US

desensitised^UK

anaesthetised^UK

anaesthetized^UK

without feeling

deprived of sensation

lacking in feeling

lacking in sensation

undemonstrative

cool, calm and collected

self-controlled

unimpressionable

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“Hence, it came about, that when necessity constrained him to speak, his tongue was torpid, awkward, and like a door whose hinges have grown rusty.”

Adjective

Slow in pace or speed

procrastinating

good-for-nothing

slow and steady

slow as molasses

on hands and knees

in your own time

at your own pace

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“Fast they were not, sailing underwater at a torpid pace of 9 knots.”

Adjective

Stationary, immobile, or not moving

at a standstill

rooted to the spot

not moving a muscle

perfectly still

as if turned to stone

fixed to the spot

turned to stone

stopped dead in your tracks

as if rooted to the spot

without moving a muscle

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“Yet this might well be called a long time for him to remain fixed as a torpid statue in one place.”

Adjective

Lacking vigor, vitality, or excitement

lacking vitality

two-dimensional

run-of-the-mill

middle-of-the-road

undistinguished

non-stimulating

lacking charisma

lacking personality

dull as dishwater

nothing to write home about

common or garden

no great shakes

dark-colored^US

dark-coloured^UK

lacking variety

lacking interest

lacking excitement

soul-destroying

dull as ditchwater

run of the mill

run-of-the-mine

lacking variation

nothing to get excited about

fair to middling

unexceptionable

lacking in vitality

unobjectionable

blending into the background

straightforward

run-of-the mill

not amounting to much

lacking in character

without variety

flat as pancake

puts one to sleep

fair-to-middling

devoid of emotion

nothing special

middle of the road

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Adjective

Showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others

desensitised^UK

desensitized^US

uncompassionate

unimpressionable

take-no-prisoners

lacking compassion

as hard as nails

with a heart of stone

undemonstrative

dishonourable^UK

unsophisticated

uncommiserating

confrontational

without sentiment

dishonorable^US

rubbing the wrong way

ill-humoured^UK

could care less

couldn't care less

don't give a damn

killer instinct

having a killer instinct

self-centered^US

self-centred^UK

red in tooth and claw

lacking sentiment

toughened by experience

as tough as old boots

uncommunicative

anesthetized^US

disregardful of

anaesthetised^UK

dyed-in-the-wool

uninvolved with

apathetic about

indifferent about

dispassionate about

incurious about

uninterested in

extremely critical

self-controlled

cool, calm and collected

along for the ride

going with the flow

rolling with the punches

straightforward

knock-down-and-drag-out

hammer and tongs

like a bull in a china shop

anti-democratic

like a bear with a sore head

over-censorious

unaccommodating

high and mighty

high-maintenance

over-particular

unfavourable^UK

hard to satisfy

on a short fuse

overextravagant

straight from the shoulder

self-opinionated

tough nut to crack

unconstitutional

throwing one's weight about

at each other's throats

with a long face

sticking to one's guns

standing one's ground

in driver's seat

on your high horse

pulling no punches

bound and determined

not mincing one's words

speaking one's mind

calling a spade a spade

not beating about the bush

hot under the collar

easily offended

having got out of bed on the wrong side

as cross as two sticks

having got out of bed the wrong side

pass-remarkable

uncomplimentary

out of proportion

proof against persuasion

not afraid to call a spade a spade

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Adjective

Tending to spend too much time seated

in a seated position

in a sitting position

in a lotus position

good-for-nothing

procrastinating

lacking in energy

slow and steady

taking your time

having spring fever

procrastinative

couldn't-care-less

lacking in ambition

disorganized^US

disorganised^UK

asleep at the wheel

undemonstrative

hardly able to keep one's eyes open

asleep on the job

could care less

couldn't care less

don't give a damn

non-job related

non-work related

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Adjective

Dull, sluggish, or ugly

slow on the uptake

thick as two short planks

not the full shilling

dead from the neck up

as thick as two short planks

soft in the head

uncomprehending

unknowledgeable

not the sharpest tool in the box

not the sharpest tool in the shed

not the sharpest knife in the drawer

unsophisticated

without thought

feather-brained

mentally deficient

mentally handicapped

a brick short of a load

not intelligent

wet behind the ears

two sandwiches short of a picnic

as green as grass

dumb as a box of rocks

dumb as a bag of hammers

foolishly stupid

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Adjective

Not awake and aware of and responding to one's environment

out on one's feet

dead to the world

out for the count

down for the count

out like a light

anesthetized^US

anaesthetized^UK

anaesthetised^UK

lacking sensation

lacking feeling

desensitized^US

desensitised^UK

lacking physical sensation

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