Dictionary Definition
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- GenAm [ˌlukˈwɔɹm]
Adjective
- Temperature
between warm and cool.
- Wash it in lukewarm water.
- Not very enthusiastic (about a
proposal or an idea).
- The suggestion met with only a lukewarm response.
Synonyms
Translations
temperature
- Catalan: tebi , tèbia
- Danish: lunken
- Dutch: lauw
- Esperanto: varmeta
- Finnish: haalea
- French: tiède
- German: lauwarm
- Guarani: akyvy (t-)
- Hungarian: langyos
- Irish: bog
- Italian: tiepido, tiepida
- Japanese: ぬるい, 生暖かい
- Korean: 미지근한
- Norwegian: lunken
- Polish: chłodny, letni
- Portuguese: morno, tépido
- Russian: тепловатый (teplovátyj), чуть тёплый (čut’ tjóplyj)
- Spanish: tibio, tibia
- Swedish: ljum
- Thai: อุ่นๆ (oon-oon)
- Turkish: ılık
- Welsh: llugoer
- West Frisian: lij
not very enthusiastic
- Catalan: tebi , tèbia
- Dutch: lauw
- Esperanto: indiferenta, neentuziasma
- French: tiède
- Hungarian: lagymatag
- Italian: tiepido, tiepida
- Japanese: 冷めた, 白けた, 気が進まない
- Norwegian: lunken
- Polish: chłodny, sceptyczny, zdystansowany
- Portuguese: morno
- Russian: прохладный, равнодушный
- Spanish: tibio, tibia
- Swedish: ljum, likgiltig
- Turkish: umursamaz, ilgisiz, kayıtsız
- ttbc Indonesian: suam-suam kuku
- ttbc Interlingua: tepide
- Volapük: vamülik
Extensive Definition
Lukewarm or The Lukewarm may refer to:
- Lukewarm, a fictional character from the BBC series Porridge
- "2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm.)," a song by Radiohead from their album Hail to the Thief (2003)
- "The Lukewarm," a song by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez from his album Se Dice Bisonte, No Bùfalo (2007)
- A synonym for the temperature of a liquid, usually water, being slightly above room temperature
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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