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Definition of Lukewarm

1. Adjective. Moderately warm. "Tepid bath water"

2. Adjective. Feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm. "Gave only lukewarm support to the candidate"

Definition of Lukewarm

1. a. Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid; not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent.

Definition of Lukewarm

1. Adjective. Temperature between warm and cool. ¹

2. Adjective. Not very enthusiastic (about a proposal or an idea). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lukewarm

1. moderately warm [adj]

Medical Definition of Lukewarm

1. Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid; not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent. " Lukewarm blood." . " Lukewarm patriots." "An obedience so lukewarm and languishing that it merits not the name of passion." (Dryden) Lucewarmly, Lucewarmness. See: Luke. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lukewarm

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Literary usage of Lukewarm

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1893)
"He also succeeded in quarrelling, first with Colonel King and then with the Earl of Manchester, both of whom he regarded as lukewarm, incapable, ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... a signed protest against a new catechism which had been introduced by the church authorities, which was characteristic of their lukewarm spirit. ..."

3. Theological Works: Published at Different Times, and Now Collected Into Volumes by Thomas Scott (1810)
"... for the professed Christians in that city had degenerated far more than any of the others. They were become lukewarm, yet proud of their ..."

4. History of the Late War Between the United States and Great Britain by Henry Marie Brackenridge (1844)
"Meeting of Congress—Violence of Party Spirit—lukewarm Deportment of the New ... On the one side, we find the opposition accused of manifesting a lukewarm ..."

5. Sermons on Important Subjects by Samuel Davies, Albert Barnes, Thomas Gibbons (1841)
"So then, because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth. THE soul of man is endowed with such active powers, ..."

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