1 A tepid reaction is not enthusiastic:
I got a tepid response to my suggestion.
2 (of liquid) not very warm, or (of feelings or actions) not very strong:
3 not very good or strong:
I doubt many parents would find satisfaction in such tepid rationalizations.
The staff's own reaction to huitlacoche itself was, at best, tepid.
Temperature is also susceptible to plain language description: hot, warm, tepid, cool, freezing can each be understood as grades.
All statements of the kind were not as tepid.
Presented as a powder, it is readily constituted into solution in tepid water.
Our rights of self-defense are not that tepid.
The majority of the survey provided a far more tepid assessment of encouraging democracy abroad, even for religious minorities.
If his heart is tepid, it is as if he is conceived in the feminine side, which is weaker and defective.