Lukewarm

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lukewarm \Luke"warm`\ (l[=u]k"w[add]rm`), a. [See {Luke}.]
     1. Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid.
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     2. Not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent. " Lukewarm
        blood." --Spenser. " Lukewarm patriots." --Addison.


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              An obedience so lukewarm and languishing that it
              merits not the name of passion.       --Dryden.
        -- {Luke"warm`ly}, adv. -- {Luke"warm`ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lukewarm
       adj 1: moderately warm; "he hates lukewarm coffee"; "tepid bath
              water" [syn: {tepid}]
       2: feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm; "a
          halfhearted effort"; "gave only lukewarm support to the
          candidate" [syn: {halfhearted}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "lukewarm":
     Laodicean, aestival, apathetic, blood-hot, blood-warm, calid,
     chill, chilly, cold, cool, equatorial, fervorless, genial,
     half-baked, halfhearted, hesitant, indecisive, indevotional,
     indevout, indifferent, indifferentist, insouciant, irresolute,
     irresolved, lackadaisical, luke, mild, neuter, neutral, nonchalant,
     nonobservant, nonreligious, perfunctory, phlegmatic,
     room temperature, room-temperature, subtropical, summery, sunny,
     sunshiny, temperate, tepid, thermal, thermic, toasty, tropical,
     uncertain, uncommitted, undecided, undevout, undutiful,
     unenthusiastic, unfrozen, unmoved, unreligious, unresolved,
     unresponsive, warm, warm as toast, warmish, wishy-washy,
     zealless