adj
Meaning 1
Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- I'm drinking a cup of tepid water.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Laodicean, lukewarm, warm, tepid, mild, balmy
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
tepid
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Sound
Pronunciation
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tĕp'ĭd
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/ˈtɛpɪd/
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rhymes with -ɛpɪd
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CMU ARPABET: T EH1 P IH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Uninterested; exhibiting little passion or eagerness; lukewarm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- He gave me a tepid response to the proposal.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: uninterested, lukewarm, unconcerned, adiaphroistic, apathetic, apathistical, blasé, blithe, deaf, cool, shiftless, dispassionate, dull, enervated, gallionic, halfhearted, heartless, impassive, ineffervescible, insouciant, indifferent, insensible, jaded, languid, languorous, Laodicean, lethargic, listless, lackadaisical, lotophagous, meh, mopey, nonchalant, nonplussed, otiose, phlegmatic, pococurante, spiritless, supine, tepid, torpid, torpedinous, unaroused, uncaring, unenthusiastic, unimpressible, unlively, unmoved, untouched, unzealous, world-weary
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a halfhearted effort
- gave only lukewarm support to the candidate
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: halfhearted, half-hearted, lukewarm
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
moderately warm
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he hates lukewarm coffee
- tepid bath water
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lukewarm
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tep- Proto-Indo-European *-éh1ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh1yeti Proto-Indo-European *t(e)péh1yeti Proto-Italic *tepēō Latin tepeō Proto-Indo-European *dheh1-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin tepidusbor. English tepid Borrowed from Latin tepidus. Cognate with Sanskrit तप् (tap), Proto-Slavic *teplъ.
Across languages
Translations
106 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: lou — lukewarm
- Arabic: فاتر (fātir) — lukewarm
- Arabic: دافي (dæfi) — lukewarm
- Armenian: տաքավուն (takʻavun) — lukewarm
- Armenian: գոլ (gol) — lukewarm
- Bashkir: имшеү (imşew) — lukewarm
- Bashkir: йылымыс (yılımıs) — lukewarm
- Bashkir: йылымса (yılımsa) — lukewarm
- Bulgarian: хладък (hladǎk) — lukewarm
- Catalan: tebi — lukewarm
- Czech: vlažný — lukewarm
- Danish: lunken — lukewarm
- Dutch: lauw — lukewarm
- Esperanto: varmeta — lukewarm
- Finnish: haalea — lukewarm
- French: tiède — lukewarm
- Middle French: tiede — lukewarm
- Old French: tiede — lukewarm
- Galician: tépedo — lukewarm
- Galician: morno — lukewarm
- German: lauwarm — lukewarm
- Greek: χλιαρός (chliarós) — lukewarm
- Greek: υπόθερμος (ypóthermos) — lukewarm
- Ancient Greek: χλιαρός (khliarós) — lukewarm
- Hebrew: פּוֹשֵׁר (poshér) — lukewarm
- Hungarian: langyos — lukewarm
- Interlingua: tepide — lukewarm
- Irish: alabhog — lukewarm
- Italian: tiepido — lukewarm
- Japanese: ぬるい (nurui) — lukewarm
- Central Kurdish: شلتێن (şiltên) — lukewarm
- Latin: tepidus — lukewarm
- Macedonian: млак (mlak) — lukewarm
- Malay: suam-suam kuku — lukewarm
- Māori: aromahana — lukewarm
- Nepali: मनतातो (manatāto) — lukewarm
- Norwegian Bokmål: lunken — lukewarm
- Norwegian Nynorsk: lunken — lukewarm
- Occitan: tebés — lukewarm
- Occitan: tèbi — lukewarm
- Persian: ولرم — lukewarm
- Polish: letni — lukewarm
- Portuguese: tépido — lukewarm
- Portuguese: morno — lukewarm
- Portuguese: tíbio — lukewarm
- Romanian: călduț — lukewarm
- Russian: теплова́тый (teplovátyj) — lukewarm
- Russian: чуть тёплый (čutʹ tjóplyj) — lukewarm
- Scottish Gaelic: flodach — lukewarm
- Serbo-Croatian: мла̑ко — lukewarm
- Serbo-Croatian: мла̑к — lukewarm
- Serbo-Croatian: mlȃko — lukewarm
- Serbo-Croatian: mlȃk — lukewarm
- Sotho: fofo — lukewarm
- Spanish: tibio — lukewarm
- Spanish: tépido — lukewarm
- Swedish: ljummen — lukewarm
- Tagalog: malahininga — lukewarm
- Turkish: ılık — lukewarm
- Walloon: tiene — lukewarm
- Bulgarian: равнодушен (ravnodušen) — uninterested
- Bulgarian: безразличен (bezrazličen) — uninterested
- Catalan: tebi — uninterested
- Czech: vlažný — uninterested
- Danish: lunken — uninterested
- Dutch: lauw — uninterested
- Dutch: flauw — uninterested
- Dutch: ongeïnteresseerd — uninterested
- Finnish: viileä — uninterested
- Finnish: laimea — uninterested
- Finnish: vaimea — uninterested
- French: tiède — uninterested
- French: tiédasse — uninterested
- French: mou — uninterested
- French: indifférent — uninterested
- French: atone — uninterested
- French: avachi — uninterested
- French: ramollo — uninterested
- Galician: tépedo — uninterested
- Galician: morno — uninterested
- German: lau — uninterested
- Greek: χλιαρός (chliarós) — uninterested
- Greek: άτονος (átonos) — uninterested
- Hungarian: langyos — uninterested
- Hungarian: lagymatag — uninterested
- Interlingua: tepide — uninterested
- Italian: tepido — uninterested
- Italian: indifferente — uninterested
- Italian: molle — uninterested
- Italian: fiacco — uninterested
- Japanese: 冷めた (sameta) — uninterested
- Norwegian Bokmål: lunken — uninterested
- Norwegian Nynorsk: lunken — uninterested
- Portuguese: desinteressado — uninterested
- Portuguese: tíbio — uninterested
- Romanian: dezinteresat — uninterested
- Russian: прохла́дный (proxládnyj) — uninterested
- Russian: равноду́шный (ravnodúšnyj) — uninterested
- Russian: безразли́чный (bezrazlíčnyj) — uninterested
- Spanish: tibio — uninterested
- Spanish: flojo — uninterested
- Spanish: blandengue — uninterested
- Spanish: lacio — uninterested
- Spanish: tépido — uninterested
- Swedish: ljummen — uninterested
- Turkish: ılık — uninterested