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[ US /ˈɫuˈkwɔɹm/ ]
[ UK /lˈuːkwɔːm/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm
    gave only lukewarm support to the candidate
    a halfhearted effort
  2. 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.
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