lukewarm

lukewarm
    adj 1: moderately warm; "he hates lukewarm coffee"; "tepid bath
           water" [syn: {lukewarm}, {tepid}]
    2: feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm; "a
       halfhearted effort"; "gave only lukewarm support to the
       candidate" [syn: {halfhearted}, {half-hearted}, {tepid},
       {lukewarm}]
    

Lukewarm \Luke"warm`\ (l[=u]k"w[add]rm`), a. [See {Luke}.]
   1. Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid.
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   2. Not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent. " Lukewarm
      blood." --Spenser. " Lukewarm patriots." --Addison.
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            An obedience so lukewarm and languishing that it
            merits not the name of passion.       --Dryden.
      -- {Luke"warm`ly}, adv. -- {Luke"warm`ness}, n.
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62 Moby Thesaurus words for "lukewarm":
      Laodicean, aestival, apathetic, blood-hot, blood-warm, calid,
      chill, chilly, cold, cool, equatorial, fervorless, genial,
      half-baked, halfhearted, hesitant, indecisive, indevotional,
      indevout, indifferent, indifferentist, insouciant, irresolute,
      irresolved, lackadaisical, luke, mild, neuter, neutral, nonchalant,
      nonobservant, nonreligious, perfunctory, phlegmatic,
      room temperature, room-temperature, subtropical, summery, sunny,
      sunshiny, temperate, tepid, thermal, thermic, toasty, tropical,
      uncertain, uncommitted, undecided, undevout, undutiful,
      unenthusiastic, unfrozen, unmoved, unreligious, unresolved,
      unresponsive, warm, warm as toast, warmish, wishy-washy,
      zealless