Meaning of LUKEWARM
| Pronunciation: | | 'look'worm
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- [adj] feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm; "a halfhearted effort"; "gave only lukewarm support to the candidate"
- [adj] moderately warm; "he hates lukewarm coffee"; "tepid bath water"
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| | Synonyms: | | halfhearted, tepid, unenthusiastic, warm |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Luke"warm`\, a. [See {Luke}.]
Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid; not ardent; not
zealous; cool; indifferent. `` Lukewarm blood.'' --Spenser.
`` Lukewarm patriots.'' --Addison.
An obedience so lukewarm and languishing that it merits
not the name of passion. --Dryden.
-- {Luce"warm`ly}, adv. -- {Luce"warm`ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, Laodicean, 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 |
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