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 tepid cup of water.

2. Uninterested; exhibiting little passion or eagerness.

   He gave me a tepid response to the proposal.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:warm
• (lukewarm): lukewarm
• (exhibiting little passion): uninterested

Derived terms

• tepidness

Related terms

• tepidity

Translations

lukewarm

Afrikaans: lou (af) Armenian: տաքավուն (hy) (tak’avun), գոլ (hy) (gol) 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: شلتێن (ku) (shiltén) Persian: ولرم (fa) Polish: letni (pl) m. Portuguese: tépido (pt) m. Russian: тепловатый (ru) (t'eplovátyj) Scottish Gaelic: flodach (gd) Serbian: mlako (sr) n. Sotho: fofo (st)

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) 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) Russian: прохладный (ru) (proχládnyj), равнодушный (ru), безразличный (ru) 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 m., volg f., volgt n. 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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