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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. moderately warm;
- Example: "he hates lukewarm coffee"
- Example: "tepid bath water"
[syn: lukewarm, tepid]

2. feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm;
- Example: "a halfhearted effort"
- Example: "gave only lukewarm support to the candidate"
[syn: halfhearted, half-hearted, tepid, lukewarm]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lukewarm \Luke"warm`\ (l[=u]k"w[add]rm`), a. [See Luke.]
   1. Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid.
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   2. Not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent. " Lukewarm
      blood." --Spenser. " Lukewarm patriots." --Addison.
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            An obedience so lukewarm and languishing that it
            merits not the name of passion.       --Dryden.
      -- Luke"warm`ly, adv. -- Luke"warm`ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

lukewarm
    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]