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Tepid Moderate

Tepid has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

moderately warm

"he hates lukewarm coffee"

"tepid bath water"

2

feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm

"a halfhearted effort"

"gave only lukewarm support to the candidate"

3

Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.

Example Sentences
"he hates lukewarm coffee" adjective
"tepid bath water" adjective
"a halfhearted effort" adjective
"gave only lukewarm support to the candidate" adjective
Related Terms

Origin

The word "tepid" comes from the Latin term tepidus, which originally meant warm or lukewarm. It is related to words in other languages like Sanskrit and Proto-Slavic that share this root meaning.

Rhyming Words
pid apid lepid gepid vapid sapid lipid rapid cupid sipid nepid pipid cuspid trepid elopid torpid harpid scopid upupid edopid
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