Tepid

3 definitions found

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

  Tepid \Tep"id\, a. [L. tepidus, fr. tepere to be warm; akin to
     Skr. tap to be warm, tapas heat.]
     Moderately warm; lukewarm; as, a tepid bath; tepid rays;
     tepid vapors. -- {Tep"id*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tepid
       adj : moderately warm; "he hates lukewarm coffee"; "tepid bath
             water" [syn: {lukewarm}]

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

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "tepid":
     Laodicean, aestival, apathetic, arid, blase, blood-hot, blood-warm,
     calid, cold, colorless, cool, dim, dull, equatorial, faint, feeble,
     fervorless, forceless, genial, halfhearted, indifferent, lifeless,
     luke, lukewarm, marrowless, mild, neuter, neutral, nonchalant,
     perfunctory, pithless, room-temperature, sapless, spiritless,
     subtropical, summery, sunny, sunshiny, temperate, thermal, thermic,
     toasty, tropical, uncaring, unconcerned, unenthusiastic, unfrozen,
     uninterested, unlively, warm, warm as toast, warmish, weak,
     zealless