0 slightly or only just warm; lukewarm -- suam
tepid water.
1 not very enthusiastic -- tdk mesra
a tepid welcome.
I am afraid that local authorities have a very tepid and lukewarm view of plan- ning.
I think that we must allow some freedom in this respect, otherwise it would become a tepid programme.
They are tepid little debates on some little trivial proposals for some superficial reform in the present order of society.
Carried to its logical extremes, this view of literature leads its adherents to reject much of our great literature and to embrace trite and tepid works of no enduring value.
Worms were first washed in tepid physiological saline, and then fixed in a hot mixture of 40% formaldehyde (10 parts), acetic acid (1 part) and water (89 parts).
Doctors warn patients that if a large amount is taken with tepid water, it may cause vomiting, which, however, has the advantage of expelling leeches in the throat.
Lexical development within the subset of temperature terms may therefore involve the ability to differentiate between items such as scalding, hot, lukewarm, warm, tepid, cold, and freezing.
If his heart is tepid, it is as if he is conceived in the feminine side, which is weaker and defective.
