tepid
/ˈtɛpɪd
/adjective
1(Especially of a liquid) only slightly warm; lukewarm: she soaked a flannel in the tepid water...
- She managed to reach the shower unmolested, and was soon standing under the tepid spray of water.
- He finished the tepid liquid in one swallow, then motioned with his head.
- Make a well in the flour and add the tepid water and olive oil to the centre.
Synonyms
lukewarm, warmish, slightly warm;
at room temperature;
French chambré
1.1Showing little enthusiasm: the applause was tepid...
- He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
- Though public response has been tepid, advocates of civil rights are enthusiastic.
- Yet the United Nations, the great world body created to bring peace and to disseminate aid to suffering people showed only tepid response.
Synonyms
unenthusiastic, apathetic, half-hearted, indifferent, cool, lukewarm, uninterested, unconcerned, offhand, perfunctory, desultory, limp, listless
informal unenthused
British vulgar slang half-arsed
Derivatives
tepidity
- Floating on languid, perhaps to the point of tepidity, surfaces.
- The tepidity of the applause showed that many had tired of it before the end of this first showing.
tepidly
- Until now, leisure traffic had been tepidly coming back since September 11, but only with deeply discounted fares.
- Some cheered at the end, but many more applauded tepidly.
- The eventual work, while not a disaster, was tepidly received by critics and audiences.
tepidness
- A long story of emotional reconciliation, it flows and lilts through infatuation, ending in tepidness.
- Actually, for its seeming tepidness, it's somehow addictive.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin tepidus, from tepere 'be warm'.
Rhymes
- decipherer
- decipheress
- decipherment
- decipia
- decipium
- deciser
- decision
- decisional
- decisional law
- decision engine
- decision height
- decision maker
- decision-making
- decision method
- decision model
- decision problem
- decision procedure
- decision rule
- decision speed
- decision support system
- decision system
- decision table
- decision theory
- decision tree
- decision variable