Synonyms for
Lukewarm
Definition
slightly warm, not hot or cold
Synonyms & similar words
Example sentences
- The bathwater was lukewarm, so I added some hot water to make it warmer.
- I drank a cup of lukewarm tea because I didn't want it to be too hot.
- The soup was lukewarm and not very appetizing.
- The reception to the new product was lukewarm, with few people showing interest.
- The audience gave a lukewarm response to the comedian's jokes.
Quotes
I am a big fan of lukewarm water. It has neither the aggression of hot water nor the passivity of cold water. - John Green
Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection. - Martin Luther King Jr.
I have always thought of Christmastime... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it! - Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol