tepid

English

WOTD – 14 September 2010

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tepidus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɛpɪd/
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Adjective

tepid (not comparable)

Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.
I'm drinking a cup of tepid water.

Synonym: lukewarm
Uninterested; exhibiting little passion or eagerness.
He gave me a tepid response to the proposal.
- 2016 October 22, Rami G Khouri, “Lebanese oligarchy preserves its interests once again”, in Aljazeera‎:
  The erratic behaviour of Hariri now is largely explained by the fact that his best days may be behind him, given his long absences from the country for security reasons, his declining Saudi business interests, some local challenges to his tepid leadership in recent municipal elections, and his decline in stature in the eyes of his Saudi backers.
Synonyms: uninterested, lukewarm

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:warm

Derived terms

tepidness

Related terms

▼ <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:English_terms_derived_from_the_PIE_root_*tep-' title='Category:English terms derived from the PIE root *tep-'>English terms derived from the PIE root *tep-</a>‎ (0 c, 6 e)

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/tepefaction' title='tepefaction'>tepefaction</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/tepefy' title='tepefy'>tepefy</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/tepid' title='tepid'>tepid</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/tepidity' title='tepidity'>tepidity</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/tepidness' title='tepidness'>tepidness</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/tepor' title='tepor'>tepor</a>

Translations

lukewarm

Afrikaans: lou
Arabic:
Moroccan Arabic: دافي‎ (dæfi)
Armenian: տաքավուն (hy) (takʿavun), գոլ (hy) (gol)
Bashkir: имшеү (imšew), йылымыс (yïlïmïs), йылымса (yïlïmsa)
Catalan: tebi
Czech: vlažný (cs)
Danish: lunken
Dutch: lauw (nl)
Finnish: haalea (fi)
French: tiède (fr)
Middle French: tiede

Old French: tiede
Galician: tépedo (gl)
German: lauwarm (de)
Greek: χλιαρός (el) m (chliarós), υπόθερμος (el) m (ypóthermos)
Ancient: χλιαρός (khliarós)
Hungarian: langyos (hu)
Interlingua: tepide
Irish: alabhog
Italian: tiepido (it)

Japanese: ぬるい (ja) (nurui)
Kurdish:
Sorani: شلتێن‎ (shiltén)
Latin: tepidus
Maori: aromahana
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lunken (no)

Nynorsk: lunken
Persian: ولرم‎ (fa)
Polish: letni (pl) m
Portuguese: tépido (pt) m, morno (pt), tíbio (pt)
Russian: теплова́тый (ru) (teplovátyj), чуть тёплый (čutʹ tjóplyj)
Scottish Gaelic: flodach
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мла̑ко, мла̑к

Roman: mlȃko (sh) n, mlȃk (sh)
Sotho: fofo
Spanish: tibio (es), templado (es)
Swedish: ljummen (sv)
Tagalog: malahininga
Walloon: tiene (wa) m or f

uninterested

Catalan: tebi
Danish: lunken
Dutch: lauw (nl), flauw (nl), ongeïnteresseerd
Finnish: viileä (fi), laimea (fi), vaimea (fi)
French: tiède (fr), tiédasse (fr), mou (fr), indifférent (fr), atone (fr), avachi (fr), ramollo (fr)
Galician: tépedo (gl)
German: lau (de)
Greek: χλιαρός (el) m (chliarós), άτονος (el) m (átonos)
Hungarian: langyos (hu), lagymatag (hu)
Interlingua: tepide

Italian: tepido, indifferente (it), molle (it), fiacco (it)
Japanese: 冷めた (sameta)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lunken (no)

Nynorsk: lunken
Portuguese: desinteressado (pt), tíbio (pt)
Romanian: dezinteresat (ro)
Russian: прохла́дный (ru) (proxládnyj), равноду́шный (ru) (ravnodúšnyj), безразли́чный (ru) (bezrazlíčnyj)
Spanish: tibio (es), flojo (es), blandengue (es), lacio (es), indiferente (es)
Swedish: ljummen (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} varmeta
Guaraní: ^{(please verify)} akyvy (t-)
Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} volgur (is)
Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} suam-suam kuku
Italian: ^{(please verify)} tiepido (it)

Spanish: ^{(please verify)} tibio (es)
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} ılık (tr)
Volapük: ^{(please verify)} vamülik (vo)
West Frisian: ^{(please verify)} lij

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