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Etymology

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From Middle English leukwarm, lukewarm (“lukewarm, tepid”), equivalent to luke (“lukewarm”) +‎ warm. Compare Saterland Frisian luukwoarm (“lukewarm”), German Low German luukwarm (“lukewarm”), German lauwarm (“lukewarm”). First element believed to be an alteration of Middle English lew (“tepid”) (> English dialectal lew), from Old English hlēow (“warm, sunny”), from Proto-Germanic *hliwjaz, *hlēwaz, *hlūmaz, *hleumaz (“warm”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱal(w)e-, *ḱel(w)e-, *k(')lēw- (“warm, hot”). Cognate with Dutch lauw (“tepid”), German lau (“lukewarm”), Faroese lýggjur (“warm”), Swedish ljum (“lukewarm”), ljummen (“lukewarm”) and ly (“warm”), Danish lummer (“muggy”), Danish and Norwegian lunken (“tepid”), dialectal Swedish ljummen (“lukewarm”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m
• (UK) IPA(key): /ˌluːkˈwɔːm/
• (US) IPA(key): /ˌlukˈwɔɹm/, /ˈluk.wɔɹm/

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Adjective

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lukewarm (comparative lukewarmer or more lukewarm, superlative lukewarmest or most lukewarm)

1. (temperature) Between warm and cool. Synonyms: Laodicean, (dialect) lew, (rare) luke, tepid Coordinate term: underwarm Wash it in lukewarm water. My curry is lukewarm.
2. Unenthusiastic (about a proposal or an idea). Synonyms: indifferent, unconcerned; see also Thesaurus:apathetic The suggestion met with only a lukewarm response.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
   • 1957 July, D. S. M. Barrie, “Sixty Years of British Express Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 457:The centre-vestibule "open" type of coach, which met with a very lukewarm reception when first introduced over half-a-century ago, is now used in increasing numbers as a non-dining vehicle.

Derived terms

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• lukecold
• lukecool
• lukewarmish
• lukewarmism
• lukewarmist
• lukewarmly
• lukewarmness
• lukewarmth

Translations

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Albanian: vakët (sq) Arabic: فَاتِر (ar) (fātir) Egyptian Arabic: فاتر (fātir) Moroccan Arabic: دافي (dafi) Bashkir: имшеү (imşew), йылымыс (yılımıs), йылымса (yılımsa) Bulgarian: хладък (hladǎk) Catalan: tebi (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 溫 / 温 (wan1) Mandarin: 溫 / 温 (zh) (wēn), 溫吞 / 温吞 (zh) (wēntūn) Czech: vlažný (cs) Danish: lunken Dutch: lauw (nl) Emilian: tevad Esperanto: varmeta Estonian: leige Finnish: haalea (fi) French: tiède (fr) Friulian: tivid Galician: tépedo (gl), morno (gl) German: lauwarm (de) Greek: χλιαρός (el) (chliarós) Ancient Greek: χλιαρός (khliarós) Hebrew: פּוֹשֵׁר (he) (poshér) Hungarian: langyos (hu) Ido: varmeta (io) Indonesian: hangat-hangat Interlingua: tepide Irish: bog, alabhog, alathe, bogthe Italian: tiepido (it) Japanese: ぬるい (ja) (nurui), 生暖かい (ja) (nama-atatakai), 生ぬるい (namanurui) Kazakh: қанжылым (qanjylym) Khiamniungan Naga: tānglāmlām Korean: 미지근한 (mijigeunhan) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: شلتێن (şiltên) Latgalian: rondons Latin: tepidus Latvian: remdens Macedonian: млак (mlak) Malay: suam Maori: aromahana Marathi: कोमट (komaṭ) Norman: tchiède (Jersey) Norwegian: lunken (no) Occitan: tebés (oc), tèbi (oc) Paraguayan Guarani: (please verify) akyvy Persian: ولرم (fa) (velarm) Polish: letni (pl) Portuguese: morno (pt), tépido (pt) Quechua: pari Romagnol: tevvd Romanian: călduț (ro) Russian: теплова́тый (ru) (teplovátyj), чуть тёплый (čutʹ tjóplyj) Scottish Gaelic: flodach Serbo-Croatian: mlako (sh) Slovak: vlažný Slovene: mlačen (sl) Spanish: tibio (es), templado (es) Swedish: ljum (sv), ljummen (sv) Tagalog: maligamgam Telugu: గోరువెచ్చని (te) (gōruveccani) Thai: อุ่นๆ (oon-oon) Turkish: ılık (tr) Ukrainian: теплуватий (tepluvatyj) Vietnamese: ấm (vi), âm ấm (vi) Walloon: tiene (wa) Welsh: llugoer (cy) West Frisian: lij

not very enthusiastic

Catalan: tebi (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 不熱情的 / 不热情的, 冷淡的 Czech: vlažný (cs) Dutch: lauw (nl), flauw (nl) Esperanto: indiferenta (eo), neentuziasma Finnish: vaimea (fi), laimea (fi) French: tiède (fr) Galician: morno (gl) German: lau (de) Greek: χλιαρός (el) (chliarós) Hungarian: lagymatag (hu) Ido: nezeloza Interlingua: tepide Irish: fuarbhruite, fuarspreosach, lagspreosach, patuar, fuarchráifeach (in religion) Italian: tiepido (it) Japanese: 冷めた (sameta), 白けた (shiraketa), 気が進まない (ki ga susumanai) Khiamniungan Naga: tānglāmlām Macedonian: млак (mlak) Norwegian: lunken (no) Ottoman Turkish: یوركسز (yüreksiz) Polish: chłodny (pl), sceptyczny (pl), zdystansowany Portuguese: morno (pt) Russian: прохла́дный (ru) (proxládnyj), равноду́шный (ru) (ravnodúšnyj), безразли́чный (ru) (bezrazlíčnyj) Slovak: vlažný Spanish: tibio (es), poco entusiasta, desinteresado (es), indiferente (es) Swedish: ljum (sv), likgiltig (sv) Turkish: umursamaz (tr), ilgisiz (tr), kayıtsız (tr) Vietnamese: thờ ơ (vi), lãnh đạm (vi), hờ hững (vi)

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Indonesian: (please verify) suam-suam kuku Volapük: (please verify) vamülik (vo)

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