tepid

WOTD – 14 September 2010    

English

Etymology

From Latin tepidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtɛpɪd/

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Adjective

tepid (not comparable)

1. Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.

   I'm drinking a cup of tepid water.

2. Uninterested; exhibiting little passion or eagerness.

   He gave me a tepid response to the proposal.

Synonyms

• (neither warm nor cool): lukewarm
• (exhibiting little passion): uninterested, lukewarm
• See also Wikisaurus:warm

Derived terms

• tepidness

Related terms

• tepidity

Translations

lukewarm

• Afrikaans: lou (af)
• Arabic:

  Moroccan Arabic: دافي (dafi)

• Armenian: տաքավուն (hy) (tak’avun), գոլ (hy) (gol)
• Bashkir: имшеү (imšew), йылымыс (yïlïmïs), йылымса (yïlïmsa)
• Czech: vlažný (cs)
• Danish: lunken (da)
• Dutch: lauw (nl)
• Finnish: haalea (fi)
• French: tiède (fr)
• Galician: tépedo (gl)
• German: lauwarm (de)
• Greek: χλιαρός (el) (chliarós) m, υπόθερμος (el) (ypóthermos) m
• Hungarian: langyos (hu)

• Interlingua: tepide
• Japanese: ぬるい (ja) (nurui)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: شلتێن (ku) (shiltén)

• Persian: ولرم (fa)
• Polish: letni (pl) m
• Portuguese: tépido (pt) m
• Russian: тепловатый (ru) (t'eplovátyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: flodach (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian: mlako (sh) n
• Sotho: fofo (st)
• Walloon: tiene (wa) m and f

uninterested

• Danish: lunken (da)
• Dutch: lauw (nl), flauw (nl), ongeïnteresseerd (nl)
• 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) (chliarós) m, άτονος (el) (átonos) m

• Hungarian: langyos (hu), lagymatag (hu)
• Interlingua: tepide
• Italian: tepido (it), indifferente (it), molle (it), fiacco (it)
• Japanese: 冷めた (ja) (sameta)
• Romanian: dezinteresat (ro)
• Russian: прохладный (ru) (proχládnyj), равнодушный (ru) (ravnodušnyj), безразличный (ru) (bezrazličnyj)
• Spanish: tibio (es), flojo (es), blandengue (es), lacio (es), indiferente (es)

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Translations to be checked

• Catalan: tebi m, tèbia f
• Esperanto: varmeta
• French: tiède m and f
• West Frisian: lij (1)
• Guaraní: akyvy (t-)
• Icelandic: volgur
• Indonesian: suam-suam kuku
• Italian: tiepido

• Norwegian: lunken
• Portuguese: morno m, morna f, tépido m, tépida f, tíbio m, tíbia f
• Spanish: tibio
• Turkish: ılık
• Volapük: vamülik

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