lukewarm

English

Etymology

From Middle English lukewarme (“lukewarm, tepid”), equivalent to luke (“lukewarm”) +‎ warm. First element believed to be an alteration of Middle English lew (“tepid”), from Old English hlēow (“warm, sunny”), from Proto-Germanic *hliwjaz, *hlēwaz, *hlūmaz, *hleumaz (“warm”), from 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”), Swedish dialectal ljummen (“lukwarm”).

Pronunciation

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

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Adjective

lukewarm (not comparable)

1. Of a temperature between warm and cool.

   Wash it in lukewarm water.

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

   The suggestion met with only a lukewarm response.

Synonyms

• tepid

Translations

temperature

• Arabic:

  Moroccan Arabic: دافي (dafi) m

• Bashkir: имшеү (imšew), йылымыс (yïlïmïs), йылымса (yïlïmsa)
• Catalan: tebi (ca) m, tèbia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 溫 (cmn), 温 (cmn) (wēn)

• Czech: vlažný (cs)
• Danish: lunken (da)
• Dutch: lauw (nl)
• Esperanto: varmeta (eo)
• Estonian: leige (et)
• Finnish: haalea (fi)
• French: tiède (fr)
• German: lauwarm (de)
• Greek: χλιαρός (el) (chliarós) m
• Guaraní: akyvy
• Hungarian: langyos (hu)
• Ido: varmeta (io)
• Indonesian: hangat-hangat (id)
• Interlingua: tepide
• Irish: bog (ga)
• Italian: tiepido (it) m, tiepida (it) f
• Japanese: ぬるい (ja) (nurui), 生暖かい (ja) (nama-atatakai)
• Jèrriais: tchiède
• Korean: 미지근한 (ko)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: شلتێن (ku) (shiltén)

• Latgalian: rondons
• Latin: tepidus (la)
• Latvian: remdens (lv)
• Macedonian: млак (mk) (mlak) m
• Malay: suam (ms)
• Maori: aromahana (mi)
• Marathi: कोमट (mr)
• Norwegian: lunken (no)
• Persian: ولرم (fa)
• Polish: chłodny (pl), letni (pl)
• Portuguese: morno (pt), tépido (pt)
• Russian: тепловатый (ru) (teplovátyj), чуть тёплый (ru) (čut’ tjóplyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: flodach (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian: mlako (sh) n
• Spanish: tibio (es), templado (es)
• Swedish: ljum (sv), ljummen (sv)
• Thai: อุ่นๆ (th) (oon-oon)
• Turkish: ılık (tr)
• Vietnamese: ấm (vi), âm ấm (vi)
• Walloon: tiene (wa) m and f
• Welsh: llugoer (cy)
• West Frisian: lij (fy)

not very enthusiastic

• Catalan: tebi (ca) m, tèbia (ca) f
• Czech: vlažný (cs)
• Dutch: lauw (nl), flauw (nl)
• Esperanto: indiferenta (eo), neentuziasma (eo)
• Finnish: vaimea (fi), laimea (fi)
• French: tiède (fr)
• German: lau (de)
• Greek: χλιαρός (el) (chliarós) m
• Hungarian: lagymatag (hu)
• Interlingua: tepide

• Italian: tiepido (it) m, tiepida (it) f
• Japanese: 冷めた (ja) (sameta), 白けた (ja) (shiraketa), 気が進まない (ja) (ki ga susumanai)
• Norwegian: lunken (no)
• Polish: chłodny (pl), sceptyczny (pl), zdystansowany (pl)
• Portuguese: morno (pt)
• Russian: прохладный (ru) (prokhládnyj), равнодушный (ru) (ravnodúšnyj)
• Spanish: tibio (es), poco entusiasta (es), 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: suam-suam kuku

• Volapük: vamülik