torpedinous
English edit
Etymology edit
See torpedo (“a kind of fish”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
torpedinous (comparative more torpedinous, superlative most torpedinous)
- Exerting a benumbing influence; stupefying; dull; torpid.
- 1845 January, Thomas De Quincey, “Coleridge and Opium-eating”, in Speculations Literary and Philosophic: With German Tales and Other Narrative Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XII), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 92:
- Was he dull? Is a wooden spoon dull? Fishy were his eyes; torpedinous was his manner; […]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “torpedinous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)