Meanings of rather torpid in English

Arnold's rather torpid imagination suddenly opened to the story he had heard.

Experiment 11.-Thesame experiment with cheese and albumen repeated on another and rather torpid leaf.

Her physiognomy is rather torpid, but when it becomes animated it assumes a remarkably independent and proud expression.

The rather torpid pace is eventually interrupted by the sound of chainsaws heralding the deforestation which stands for Western exploitation of the Pacific.

At any rate, when he got back to New York in the fall, he was rather torpid; perhaps he had been growing too fast.

[(1) This leaf proved rather torpid: after 4 hrs.