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Tepid - 4 dictionary results

tep⋅id

[tep-id]
–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


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


1 moderate, mild. 2. unemotional, halfhearted, apathetic.
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.

Tepid

Tep"id\, a. [L. tepidus, fr. tepere to be warm; akin to Skr. tap to be warm, tapas heat.] Moderately warm; lukewarm; as, a tepid bath; tepid rays; tepid vapors. -- Tep"id*ness, n.
Language Translation for : Tepid
Spanish: tibio,
German: lauwarm,
Japanese: 生ぬるい

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").
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