WARM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warm mean? 

• WARM (adjective)
  The adjective WARM has 9 senses:

1. having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat

2. psychologically warm; friendly and responsive

3. inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows when referring to color

4. freshly made or left

5. easily aroused or excited

6. characterized by strong enthusiasm

7. characterized by liveliness or excitement or disagreement

8. uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble

9. of a seeker; near to the object sought

  Familiarity information: WARM used as an adjective is familiar.

• WARM (verb)
  The verb WARM has 2 senses:

1. get warm or warmer

2. make warm or warmer

  Familiarity information: WARM used as a verb is rare.

• WARM (adverb)
  The adverb WARM has 1 sense:

1. in a warm manner

  Familiarity information: WARM used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WARM (adjective)

Comparative: warmer   
Superlative: warmest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat

Context example:

a warm coat

Similar:

warming (imparting heat)

lukewarm; tepid (moderately warm)

warmed (having been warmed up)

Also:

hot (used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning)

Attribute:

temperature (the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity))

Antonym:

cool (neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat)

Derivation:

warmness (the quality of having a moderate degree of heat)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Psychologically warm; friendly and responsive

Context example:

warm support

Similar:

cordial (politely warm and friendly)

hearty (showing warm and heartfelt friendliness)

Also:

emotional (of more than usual emotion)

friendly (characteristic of or befitting a friend)

Attribute:

emotionalism; emotionality (emotional nature or quality)

Antonym:

cool (psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike)

Derivation:

warmness (a positive feeling of liking)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows when referring to color

Context example:

warm reds and yellows and orange

Similar:

hot ((color) bold and intense)

Antonym:

cool (inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets when referring to color)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Freshly made or left

Synonyms:

strong; warm

Context example:

the scent is warm

Similar:

fresh (recently made, produced, or harvested)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Easily aroused or excited

Synonyms:

quick; warm

Context example:

a warm temper

Similar:

excitable (easily excited)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Characterized by strong enthusiasm

Synonyms:

ardent; warm

Context example:

warm support

Similar:

enthusiastic (having or showing great excitement and interest)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Characterized by liveliness or excitement or disagreement

Context example:

a warm debate

Similar:

lively (full of life and energy)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble

Context example:

made things warm for the bookies

Similar:

uncomfortable (providing or experiencing physical discomfort)

Sense 9

Meaning:

Of a seeker; near to the object sought

Context example:

hot on the trail

Similar:

close; near; nigh (not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances)

• WARM (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they warm    ... he / she / it warms   
Past simple: warmed   
Past participle: warmed   
-ing form: warming   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get warm or warmer

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

warm; warm up

Context example:

The soup warmed slowly on the stove

Hypernyms (to "warm" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

warming (the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make warm or warmer

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The blanket will warm you

Hypernyms (to "warm" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "warm"):

chafe (warm by rubbing, as with the hands)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

warmer (device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room)

• WARM (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a warm manner

Synonyms:

warm; warmly

Context example:

warm-clad skiers

Pertainym:

warm (having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat)

 Context examples 

I believed that I was nearer to his heart than any other friend, and my own heart warmed with attachment to him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A procedure in which a warmed solution containing anticancer drugs is used to bathe, or is passed through the blood vessels of, the tissue or organ containing the tumor.

(Chemotherapeutic Hyperthermic Perfusion, NCI Dictionary)

It is common in warm, wet areas of the world.

(Dengue, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Surely there were no live, warm editors at the other end.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If so, when it becomes clear that your participation has been a strong part of the success of the fund-drive, you will have a warm feeling of satisfaction.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Then he warmed up and enveloped Spitz in a whirlwind of rushes.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Wrapping the limb in a heated blanket or warming the drugs or blood may help the drugs work better.

(Isolated Chemotherapeutic Limb Perfusion, NCI Dictionary)

Make them get heat and fire and a warm bath.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

His admiration was certainly very warm; yet she thought, but for Mrs. Weston, it would not have struck her.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I do not know the play; but, as Maria says, if there is anything a little too warm (and it is so with most of them) it can be easily left out.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)