lukewarm

lukewarm
adj
1. warm, tepid, blood-warm, room-temperature, skin-temperature; mild, temperate, balmy, summery, estival.
2. indifferent, uninterested, impassive, disinterested; half-hearted, dispassionate, zealless, perfunctory; nonchalant, insouciant, lackadaisical, listless, Laodicean, negligent, devil-may-care; unresponsive, apathetic, spiritless, sluggish, phlegmatic; uninspiring, unimpas-sioned, untouched, unmoved, unstirred.
3. half and half, middle-of-the-road, uncommitted, noncommittal, moderate; blowing hot and cold, neither one thing nor the other, neither hot nor cold; choiceless, neutral, Inf. on the fence, undecided, irresolute.

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  • lukewarm — late 14c., from LUKE (Cf. luke) + WARM (Cf. warm). Figurative sense of lacking in zeal (of persons or their actions) is from 1520s. Related: Lukewarmly; lukewarmness …   Etymology dictionary

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