tepid

English

WOTD – 14 September 2010

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tepidus. Cognate with Sanskrit tap-, Proto-Slavic *teplъ.

Pronunciation

enPR: tĕp'ĭd, IPA^(key): /ˈtɛpɪd/
Audio (US): (file)
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛpɪd

Adjective

tepid (comparative more tepid, superlative most tepid)

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.

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:warm

Derived terms

Translations

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

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)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} varmeta
Guaraní: ^{(please verify)} akyvy (t-)
Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} volgur (is)
Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} suam-suam kuku
Italian: ^{(please verify)} tiepido (it)
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} tibio (es)
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} ılık (tr)
Volapük: ^{(please verify)} vamülik (vo)
West Frisian: ^{(please verify)} lij

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