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Borrowed from Latin tepidus. Cognate with Sanskrit tap-, Proto-Slavic *teplъ.
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tepid (comparative tepider, superlative tepidest)
- Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.
- Synonym: lukewarm
I'm drinking a cup of tepid water.
- Uninterested; exhibiting little passion or eagerness; lukewarm.
- Synonyms: uninterested, lukewarm
He gave me a tepid response to the proposal.
2016 October 22, Rami G Khouri, “Lebanese oligarchy preserves its interests once again”, in Aljazeera[1]:The erratic behaviour of Hariri now is largely explained by the fact that his best days may be behind him, given his long absences from the country for security reasons, his declining Saudi business interests, some local challenges to his tepid leadership in recent municipal elections, and his decline in stature in the eyes of his Saudi backers.
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lukewarm
- Afrikaans: lou
- Arabic:
- Egyptian Arabic: فاتر (fātir)
- Moroccan Arabic: دافي (dæfi)
- Armenian: տաքավուն (hy) (takʻavun), գոլ (hy) (gol)
- Bashkir: имшеү (imşew), йылымыс (yılımıs), йылымса (yılımsa)
- Bulgarian: хладък (hladǎk)
- Catalan: tebi (ca)
- Czech: vlažný (cs)
- Danish: lunken
- Dutch: lauw (nl)
- Esperanto: varmeta
- Finnish: haalea (fi)
- French: tiède (fr)
- Middle French: tiede
- Old French: tiede
- Galician: tépedo (gl), morno (gl)
- German: lauwarm (de)
- Greek: χλιαρός (el) m (chliarós), υπόθερμος (el) m (ypóthermos)
- Ancient: χλιαρός (khliarós)
- Hebrew: פּוֹשֵׁר (he) (poshér)
- Hungarian: langyos (hu)
- Interlingua: tepide
- Irish: alabhog
- Italian: tiepido (it)
- Japanese: ぬるい (ja) (nurui)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: شلتێن (şiltên)
- Latin: tepidus
- Macedonian: млак (mlak)
- Malay: suam-suam kuku
- Maori: aromahana
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lunken (no)
- Nynorsk: lunken
- Persian: ولرم (fa)
- Polish: letni (pl) m
- Portuguese: tépido (pt) m, morno (pt), tíbio (pt)
- Russian: теплова́тый (ru) (teplovátyj), чуть тёплый (čutʹ tjóplyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: flodach
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мла̑ко, мла̑к
- Roman: mlȃko (sh) n, mlȃk (sh)
- Sotho: fofo
- Spanish: tibio (es), templado (es)
- Swedish: ljummen (sv)
- Tagalog: malahininga
- Turkish: ılık (tr)
- Walloon: tiene (wa) m or f
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uninterested
- Bulgarian: равнодушен (bg) (ravnodušen), безразличен (bg) (bezrazličen)
- Catalan: tebi (ca)
- Czech: vlažný (cs)
- Danish: lunken
- Dutch: lauw (nl), flauw (nl), ongeïnteresseerd (nl)
- Finnish: viileä (fi), laimea (fi), vaimea (fi)
- French: tiède (fr), tiédasse (fr), mou (fr), indifférent (fr), atone (fr), avachi (fr), ramollo (fr)
- Galician: tépedo (gl), morno (gl)
- German: lau (de)
- Greek: χλιαρός (el) m (chliarós), άτονος (el) m (átonos)
- Hungarian: langyos (hu), lagymatag (hu)
- Interlingua: tepide
- Italian: tepido, indifferente (it), molle (it), fiacco (it)
- Japanese: 冷めた (sameta)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lunken (no)
- Nynorsk: lunken
- Portuguese: desinteressado (pt), tíbio (pt)
- Romanian: dezinteresat (ro)
- Russian: прохла́дный (ru) (proxládnyj), равноду́шный (ru) (ravnodúšnyj), безразли́чный (ru) (bezrazlíčnyj)
- Spanish: tibio (es), flojo (es), blandengue (es), lacio (es), indiferente (es)
- Swedish: ljummen (sv)
- Turkish: ılık (tr)
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