'Lukewarm' definitions:
Definition of 'lukewarm'
(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 'Lukewarm'
From: GCIDE
- Lukewarm \Luke"warm`\ (l[=u]k"w[add]rm`), a. [See Luke.]
- 1. Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent. " Lukewarm blood." --Spenser. " Lukewarm patriots." --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- An obedience so lukewarm and languishing that it merits not the name of passion. --Dryden. -- {Luke"warm`ly}, adv. -- {Luke"warm`ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'lukewarm'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aestival,
- apathetic,
- blood-hot,
- blood-warm,
- calid,
- chill,
- chilly,
- cold,
- cool,
- equatorial,
- fervorless,
- genial,
- half-baked,
- halfhearted,
- hesitant,
- indecisive,
- indevotional,
- indevout,
- indifferent,
- indifferentist,
- insouciant,
- irresolute,
- irresolved,
- lackadaisical,
- Laodicean,
- luke,
- mild,
- neuter,
- neutral,
- nonchalant,
- nonobservant,
- nonreligious,
- perfunctory,
- phlegmatic,
- room temperature,
- room-temperature,
- subtropical,
- summery,
- sunny,
- sunshiny,
- temperate,
- tepid,
- thermal,
- thermic,
- toasty,
- tropical,
- uncertain,
- uncommitted,
- undecided,
- undevout,
- undutiful,
- unenthusiastic,
- unfrozen,
- unmoved,
- unreligious,
- unresolved,
- unresponsive,
- warm,
- warm as toast,
- warmish,
- wishy-washy,
- zealless