Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Moderately warm; lukewarm.
- adjective Lacking in emotional warmth or enthusiasm; halfhearted.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Moderately warm; lukewarm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Moderately warm; lukewarm
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Lukewarm ; neitherwarm norcool . - adjective
Uninterested ; exhibiting little passion or eagerness.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective moderately warm
- adjective feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a Shiite, also took a stab at what he called a tepid U.S. response to the unrest against the tiny island's Sunni monarchy.
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I haven't read this, but I did read Esslemont's Night of Knives and I thought it was a bit meh, so I am not surprised that "tepid" is the one word applied to this volume.
Ian Cameron Esslemont - Return of the Crimson Guard (Book Review)
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Given the long-term tepid outlook for the world economy, is the near-future the right time to force those costs down consumers' throats?
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And from its crimson source in tepid channels flow.
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Beneath this window is a broad divan, and here, laved in tepid sea winds and soothed by rippling whispers against the ship's side, I sleep – the langorous, voluptuous sleep of the tropics; ... sink softly into that dim warm flood where one lies drenched, submerged in unconsciousness; a flood that ebbs slowly, slowly – bearing with it all fatigue and satiety – and leaves me on the shores of life again in a pale lilac dusk glimmering with great stars ....
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These good global numbers hide, however, a more complex reality, namely a tepid recovery in many advanced economies, and a much stronger one in most emerging and developing economies.
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These good global numbers hide, however, a more complex reality, namely a tepid recovery in many advanced economies, and a much stronger one in most emerging and developing economies.
Olivier Blanchard: World Faces Serious New Economic Challenges
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BLITZER: President Obama is now using the toughest language yet to condemn Iran's crackdown on political protesters after a week of what his critics called a tepid response.
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That said, even as a conservative, I believe my bias towards John Tory could have been most charitably described as tepid I did not support him for leader, and as recently as two weeks ago I was not very impressed.
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That said, even as a conservative, I believe my bias towards John Tory could have been most charitably described as tepid I did not support him for leader, and as recently as two weeks ago I was not very impressed.
cxkang commented on the word tepid
strictly physical context?
May 13, 2009
bilby commented on the word tepid
Can't rule out the metaphorical.
May 13, 2009