[syn: halfhearted, half-hearted, tepid, lukewarm]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tepid \Tep"id\, a. [L. tepidus, fr. tepere to be warm; akin to
Skr. tap to be warm, tapas heat.]
Moderately warm; lukewarm; as, a tepid bath; tepid rays;
tepid vapors. -- Tep"id*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tepid
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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "tepid":
Laodicean, aestival, apathetic, arid, blase, blood-hot, blood-warm,
calid, cold, colorless, cool, dim, dull, equatorial, faint, feeble,
fervorless, forceless, genial, halfhearted, indifferent, lifeless,
luke, lukewarm, marrowless, mild, neuter, neutral, nonchalant,
perfunctory, pithless, room-temperature, sapless, spiritless,
subtropical, summery, sunny, sunshiny, temperate, thermal, thermic,
toasty, tropical, uncaring, unconcerned, unenthusiastic, unfrozen,
uninterested, unlively, warm, warm as toast, warmish, weak,
zealless