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TEPID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tepid mean?
• TEPID (adjective)
The adjective TEPID has 2 senses:
1. moderately warm
2. feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm
Familiarity information: TEPID used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Moderately warm
Synonyms:
lukewarm; tepid
Context example:
tepid bath water
Similar:
warm (having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat)
Derivation:
tepidity; tepidness (a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm
Synonyms:
half-hearted; halfhearted; lukewarm; tepid
Context example:
gave only lukewarm support to the candidate
Similar:
unenthusiastic (not enthusiastic; lacking excitement or ardor)
Derivation:
tepidness (lack of passion, force or animation)
Context examples
He quite shook hands with me—which was a violent proceeding for him, his usual course being to slide a tepid little fish-slice, an inch or two in advance of his hip, and evince the greatest discomposure when anybody grappled with it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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