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. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
tepid
adj : moderately warm; "he hates lukewarm coffee"; "tepid bath
water" [syn: lukewarm]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
lukewarm
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