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Tepid

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tep⋅id

  [tep-id]
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–adjective
1. moderately warm; lukewarm: tepid water.
2. characterized by a lack of force or enthusiasm: tepid prose; the critics' tepid reception for the new play.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L tepidus lukewarm, equiv. to tep(ēre) to be lukewarm + -idus -id 4

Related forms:
te⋅pid⋅i⋅ty, tep⋅id⋅ness, noun
tep⋅id⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1 moderate, mild. 2. unemotional, halfhearted, apathetic.
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tep·id   (těp'ĭd)   
adj.  

  1. Moderately warm; lukewarm.

  2. Lacking in emotional warmth or enthusiasm; halfhearted: "the tepid conservatism of the fifties" (Irving Howe).


[Middle English, from Latin tepidus, from tepēre, to be lukewarm.]
te·pid'i·ty, tep'id·ness n., tep'id·ly adv.
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Word Origin & History

tepid 
c.1400, from L. tepidus "lukewarm," from tepere "be warm," from PIE base *tep- "warm" (cf. Skt. tapati "makes warm, heats, burns," tapah "heat;" Avestan tafnush "fever;" O.C.S. topiti "to warm," teplu "warm;" O.Ir. tene "fire;" Welsh tes "heat").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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