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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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