Meaning and example
slow and apathetic
She was fat and inert
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.634 places torpid in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 73.9% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
Similar-prevalence words
obfuscateRare
- Known by
- 73.7%
make obscure or unclear
convivialRare
- Known by
- 73.6%
occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company
truculentRare
- Known by
- 74.4%
defiantly aggressive
intransigentRare
- Known by
- 73.2%
impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
asceticRare
- Known by
- 74.6%
someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
Definitions and related terms are derived from WordNet. This page is part of the curated indexable word set.