'Tepid' definitions:
Definition of 'tepid'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Moderately warm; "he hates lukewarm coffee"; "tepid bath water" [syn: lukewarm, tepid]
adjective
Feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm; "a halfhearted effort"; "gave only lukewarm support to the candidate" [syn: halfhearted, half-hearted, tepid, lukewarm]
Definition of 'Tepid'
From: GCIDE
- 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. -- {Tep"id*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'tepid'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aestival,
- apathetic,
- arid,
- blase,
- blood-hot,
- blood-warm,
- calid,
- cold,
- colorless,
- cool,
- dim,
- dull,
- equatorial,
- faint,
- feeble,
- fervorless,
- forceless,
- genial,
- halfhearted,
- indifferent,
- Laodicean,
- 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