lukewarm

English

Etymology

From Middle English leukwarm, lukewarm (“lukewarm, tepid”), equivalent to luke (“lukewarm”) +‎ warm. Compare Saterland Frisian luukwoarm (“lukewarm”), German Low German luukwarm (“lukewarm”), German lauwarm (“lukewarm”). First element believed to be an alteration of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English lew (“tepid”) (> English dialectal lew), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English hlēow (“warm, sunny”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hliwjaz, *hlēwaz, *hlūmaz, *hleumaz (“warm”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ḱal(w)e-, *ḱel(w)e-, *k(')lēw- (“warm, hot”). Cognate with Dutch lauw (“tepid”), German lauwarm (“lukewarm”), Faroese lýggjur (“warm”), Swedish ljum (“lukewarm”), ljummen (“lukewarm”) and ly (“warm”), Danish lummer (“muggy”), Danish and Norwegian lunken (“tepid”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Swedish dialectal ljummen (“lukewarm”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)m
• IPA^(key): /ˌluːkˈwɔːm/
• IPA^(key): /ˌlukˈwɔɹm/, /ˈluk.wɔɹm/

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Adjective

lukewarm (comparative lukewarmer or more lukewarm, superlative lukewarmest or most lukewarm)

1. (temperature) Between warm and cool.

   Wash it in lukewarm water.

   My curry is lukewarm.

2. Not very enthusiastic (about a proposal or an idea).

   The suggestion met with only a lukewarm response.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 10, in The Celebrity:

     The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.

Synonyms

• tepid

Translations

temperature

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: فاتر (fātir)

  Moroccan Arabic: دافي m (dafi)

• Bashkir: имшеү (imşew), йылымыс (yılımıs), йылымса (yılımsa)
• Catalan: tebi m, tèbia f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 溫／温 (wan¹)

  Mandarin: 溫／温 (zh) (wēn), 温 (zh) (wēn)

• Czech: vlažný (cs) m
• Danish: lunken
• Dutch: lauw (nl)
• Emilian: tevad
• Esperanto: varmeta
• Estonian: leige
• Finnish: haalea (fi)
• French: tiède (fr)
• Friulian: tivid
• Galician: tépedo (gl), morno (gl)
• German: lauwarm (de)
• Greek: χλιαρός (el) m (chliarós)

  Ancient: χλιαρός (khliarós)

• Guaraní: akyvy
• Hebrew: פּוֹשֵׁר (he) m (posher)
• Hungarian: langyos (hu)
• Ido: varmeta (io)
• Indonesian: hangat-hangat
• Interlingua: tepide
• Irish: bog, alabhog, alathe, bogthe
• Italian: tiepido (it) m, tiepida (it) f
• Japanese: ぬるい (ja) (nurui), 生暖かい (nama-atatakai), 生ぬるい (namanurui)
• Kazakh: қанжылым (qanjylym)
• Korean: 미지근한 (mijigeunhan)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

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• Latgalian: rondons
• Latin: tepidus
• Latvian: remdens
• Macedonian: млак m (mlak)
• Malay: suam
• Maori: aromahana
• Marathi: कोमट (komaṭ)
• Norman: tchiède
• Norwegian: lunken (no)
• Persian: ولرم (fa) (velarm)
• Polish: chłodny (pl), letni (pl)
• Portuguese: morno (pt), tépido (pt)
• Quechua: pari
• Romagnol: tevvd
• Russian: теплова́тый (ru) (teplovátyj), чуть тёплый (čutʹ tjóplyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: flodach
• Serbo-Croatian: mlako (sh) n
• Slovak: vlažný
• Slovene: mlačen (sl)
• Spanish: tibio (es), templado (es)
• Swedish: ljum (sv), ljummen (sv)
• Tagalog: maligamgam
• Telugu: గోరువెచ్చని (te) (gōruveccani)
• Thai: อุ่นๆ (oon-oon)
• Turkish: ılık (tr)
• Ukrainian: теплуватий (tepluvatyj)
• Vietnamese: ấm (vi), âm ấm (vi)
• Walloon: tiene (wa) m or f
• Welsh: llugoer (cy)
• West Frisian: lij

not very enthusiastic

• Catalan: tebi m, tèbia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不热情的, 冷淡的

• Czech: vlažný (cs) m
• Dutch: lauw (nl), flauw (nl)
• Esperanto: indiferenta (eo), neentuziasma
• Finnish: vaimea (fi), laimea (fi)
• French: tiède (fr)
• Galician: morno (gl)
• German: lau (de)
• Greek: χλιαρός (el) m (chliarós)
• Hungarian: lagymatag (hu)
• Ido: nezeloza
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• Interlingua: tepide
• Irish: fuarbhruite, fuarspreosach, lagspreosach, patuar, fuarchráifeach (in religion)
• Italian: tiepido (it) m, tiepida (it) f
• Japanese: 冷めた (sameta), 白けた (shiraketa), 気が進まない (ki ga susumanai)
• Norwegian: lunken (no)
• Polish: chłodny (pl), sceptyczny (pl), zdystansowany
• Portuguese: morno (pt)
• Russian: прохла́дный (ru) (proxládnyj), равноду́шный (ru) (ravnodúšnyj), безразли́чный (ru) (bezrazlíčnyj)
• Slovak: vlažný
• Spanish: tibio (es), poco entusiasta, desinteresado (es), indiferente (es)
• Swedish: ljum (sv), likgiltig (sv)
• Turkish: umursamaz (tr), ilgisiz (tr), kayıtsız (tr)
• Vietnamese: thờ ơ (vi), lãnh đạm (vi), hờ hững (vi)

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Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} suam-suam kuku
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• Volapük: ^{(please verify)} vamülik (vo)