tepid

3 definitions found

tepid - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

tepid - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  tepid
      adj 1: moderately warm; "he hates lukewarm coffee"; "tepid bath
             water" [syn: lukewarm, tepid]
      2: feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm; "a
         halfhearted effort"; "gave only lukewarm support to the
         candidate" [syn: halfhearted, half-hearted, tepid,
         lukewarm]

tepid - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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