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US
/ˈɫuˈkwɔɹm/
]
[ UK /lˈuːkwɔːm/ ]
[ UK /lˈuːkwɔːm/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm
gave only lukewarm support to the candidate
a halfhearted effort -
moderately warm
tepid bath water
he hates lukewarm coffee
How To Use lukewarm In A Sentence
- It is true: but liberality baulkes, and feares covetousnesse and niggardize, more a great deale then prodigallity; so does zeale lukewarmnes and coldnesse, more then too much heate and forwardnesse; the defect is more opposite and dangerous to some vertues, then the excesse. A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich
- Wash your face with lukewarm water.
- The numerous and lukewarm group outnumber the rabid partisans on both sides, though.
- Winnie pushed away her unfinished toast and drained her glass of lukewarm tea.
- Take the 1 cup lukewarm water and mix the package of yeast into it.
- According to O'Donnell, the system works through the circulation of lukewarm water in a network of pipe loops embedded in the floor.
- But he washed his hands and brushed his hair and they descended to the dining-room, where they ate a 'table d'hote' meal, beginning with lukewarm soup and ending with salty ice cream. Cap'n Dan's Daughter
- The initial public reaction was lukewarm. The Times Literary Supplement
- Madeline was a lush and a wine snob, a vegetarian, and a dreadful cook (once she had poached a thick hunk of cod to just that degree of lukewarmness that had reanimated the little white worms inside).
- Delays in implementation deadlines have, however, produced a lukewarm response from campaigners.