Found 3 hits - Term: lukewarm, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lukewarm \luke"warm`\ l=uk"waddrm`, a. see luke.
1. moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid.
1913 webster
2. not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent. " lukewarm
blood." --spenser. " lukewarm patriots." --addison.
1913 webster
an obedience so lukewarm and languishing that it
merits not the name of passion. --dryden.
-- luke"warm`ly, adv. -- luke"warm`ness, n.
1913 webster
see also:
luke luke"warm`ly luke"warm`ness
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
tepid halfhearted
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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