torpid
TOR-pidadjMeaning slow and inactive, as if numb
Memory hook a TOR-pid TORtoise. On a frosty morning, the tortoise hardly moves at all until the sun warms its shell: it is torpid.
In the cold, the torpid lizard barely moved.
In context The village seemed torpid in the summer heat; shops closed at noon, dogs slept in the shade, and nothing stirred until evening.
Similar sluggish, inactive, lethargic, dormant
Opposite active, lively, alert
From Latin torpidus, from torpere (to be numb).