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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lukewarm
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lukewarm reception (=not enthusiastic)
▪ I am bewildered by the lukewarm reception given to her latest album.
lukewarm (=only slightly warm)
▪ Stir the yeast into lukewarm water.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
only
▪ Opposition leaders said they would try to stage nationwide protests, but previous opposition rallies have met only lukewarm support.
▪ Response to the entrepreneurship track has been only lukewarm, however.
■ NOUN
response
▪ Delays in implementation deadlines have, however, produced a lukewarm response from campaigners.
water
▪ Then she went to the sink and filled it with lukewarm water and made the water frothy with soap-powder.
▪ I shower in lukewarm water and decide on thick white running shorts and matching top which I put on in slow motion.
▪ After fiddling with the tiny shower-head Polly managed to get a spray rather than a trickle of lukewarm water.
▪ Then, the caps should be removed and the acorns rinsed in lukewarm water with a bit of bleach.
▪ All you do is fill the bag with lukewarm water and lay it on the floor.
▪ Proof active dry yeast first in 4 tablespoons lukewarm water.
▪ Dry cleaning solvent Detergent one teaspoon of washing powder with a half pint of lukewarm water.
▪ Add small quantities of water as needed. 1 Proof active dry yeast first in 4 tablespoons lukewarm water.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a lukewarm bath
▪ Investment fund managers are a little lukewarm about the prospects of these bonds.
▪ Lester finished speaking, and there was a ripple of rather lukewarm applause.
▪ Research chief, Michael Greenall, said "I'm lukewarm toward the whole deal."
▪ Sikes' new movie received a lukewarm reaction from critics.
▪ The bartender handed me a mug of lukewarm beer.
▪ The coffee was only lukewarm.
▪ Their response to my idea was only lukewarm.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As for Smith, he received a lukewarm reception from his teammates Wednesday.
▪ For a long time, as you know, he was lukewarm about it.
▪ Higher education for the deaf receives the same lukewarm support.
▪ Its brevity, awkward composition and lukewarm style of its writing stemmed from the Committee's revisions.
▪ Republicans will point to the failure as proof of the administration's lukewarm commitment to missile defense during the past seven years.
▪ The air of the hospital is lukewarm, and it hums, and tastes of human organs obscurely neutralized or mistakenly preserved.
▪ The water also should be cold, not room temperature or lukewarm.
▪ This is the more remarkable in view of the lukewarm support some of the policies have had in the Cabinet and party.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lukewarm

Lukewarm \Luke"warm`\ (l[=u]k"w[add]rm`), a. [See Luke.]

  1. Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid.

  2. Not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent. `` Lukewarm blood.''
    --Spenser. `` Lukewarm patriots.''
    --Addison.

    An obedience so lukewarm and languishing that it merits not the name of passion.
    --Dryden. -- Luke"warm`ly, adv. -- Luke"warm`ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lukewarm

late 14c., from luke + warm (adj.). Figurative sense of "lacking in zeal" (of persons or their actions) is from 1520s. Related: Lukewarmly; lukewarmness.

Wiktionary
lukewarm

a. 1 (label en temperature) Between warm and cool. 2 (label en social) Not very enthusiastic (about a proposal or an idea).

WordNet
lukewarm
  1. adj. moderately warm; "he hates lukewarm coffee"; "tepid bath water" [syn: tepid]

  2. feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm; "a halfhearted effort"; "gave only lukewarm support to the candidate" [syn: halfhearted]

Wikipedia
Lukewarm (Porridge)
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Lukewarm

Lukewarm or The Lukewarm may refer to:

  • Lukewarm (Porridge), a fictional character from the BBC series Porridge
  • " "2 + 2 = 5" (song), or "The Lukewarm", a song by Radiohead from their album Hail to the Thief (2003)
  • Lukewarm (film), a 2012 film
  • "The Lukewarm," a song by Omar Rodríguez-López from his album Se Dice Bisonte, No Bùfalo (2007)

Usage examples of "lukewarm".

Then, as showtime neared, they returned to the ship, where Tojo donned his candy-striped jacket and straw boater, and Flint had a couple of lukewarm beers and a sandwich.

Then, Cerryl took a moment to drink the remainder of the lukewarm cider from the pitcher and slip two apples from the bowl into his tunic before easing toward the door beside the hearth.

He pushed it until it latched and then swam out of the opening into the lukewarm water of the bay.

Bill Ingram liked Appercep, disliked Nitid, was lukewarm about the others.

The document is plenty to drive everyone cool or lukewarm to us into the Purist camp, and to make our friends look for a good place to hide.

And the one who appears to be the leader of them all now extends her hand to the bold knight who has cast himself into the boiling lake and, without saying a word, conducts him into the splendid palace or castle, where she makes him strip until he is as bare as when his mother bore him, and then bathes him in lukewarm water, after which she anoints him all over with sweet-smelling unguents and clothes him in a shirt of finest sendal, all odorous and perfumed, as another maid tosses a mantle over his shoulders, one which at the very least, so they say, must be worth as much as a city and even more.

Mix in one quart of sifted bread flour, one-quarter cup of sugar, a saltspoon of salt and one-half yeast cake dissolved in one-half cup of lukewarm water.

And without waiting for their answer, I bared his chest, took off the plaster, washed the skin carefully with lukewarm water, and in less than three minutes he breathed freely and fell into a quiet sleep.

I drink lukewarm barley tea, and every three or four hours I take one of the antipyretics I cadged from the nurse.

Thursday evening a very weary Manny was drinking lukewarm coffee in 5F with two men from the Office of Security when the phone rang.

After about two hours it was lukewarm, stewy stuff, but in the early hours of the morning it was nectar.

This was usually a plate of weevily porridge, bread and dripping washed down by a mug or a tin of lukewarm, sweet, milky tea.

The two of them sipped lukewarm coffee, and ate bialys off waxed paper and the outside of brown paper bags.

Hearing the unending whine of tires on interstate concrete, broken only by chuckhole thumps and the stepdown of gears as the bus pulled off the highway for one of its frequent stops to expel or ingest passengers, to refuel with liquefied coal and resupply with boiler water, to allow passengers to consume lukewarm food at dirty bus stations or anonymous diners.

Although the Balfour Declaration gave Zionism the lukewarm support of the backers of the White Guardist pogromists, it did nothing to curb the pogroms.