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单词 tepid
释义
tepid
adjective
uk
/ˈtep.ɪd/us
/ˈtep.ɪd/

tepidadjective(NOT WARM)

(ofliquid) not verywarm
（液体）温热的，微热的
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Warm
  • balmy
  • chill
  • lukewarm
  • rewarm
  • snug
  • snugly
  • take the chill offsomethingidiom
  • thaw
  • thaw out
  • toast
  • toasty
  • warm
  • warm(someone/something)up
  • warmly
  • warmth

tepidadjective(NOT ENTHUSIASTIC)

A tepidreactionis notenthusiastic:
（反应）不热情的，不热烈的
I got a tepidresponseto mysuggestion.我的建议得到的反应很平淡。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Lacking interest and enthusiasm
  • apathetic
  • apathy
  • aridity
  • blah
  • blankly
  • flatly
  • half-hearted
  • half-heartedly
  • hell
  • nonchalance
  • nonchalant
  • nonchalantly
  • nonconcern
  • passionless
  • unmotivated
  • vacant
  • vacantly
  • world-weariness
  • world-weary
  • yourheart isn't in itidiom
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(Definition oftepidfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

tepid| American Dictionary

tepid
adjective[not gradable]
us
/ˈtep·ɪd/
(ofliquid) not verywarm, or (offeelingsoractions) not verystrong:
There is only tepidsupportinCongressfor theproposal.
(Definition oftepidfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

tepid| Business English

tepid
adjective
uk
/ˈtepɪd/us
not very good orstrong:
The market's tepidfinishwaspartlydueto fourth-quarterearningsfallingshortofWallStreet'sexpectations.
They arestrugglingtoboostprofitsamidtepidsales.
Hissoloworkhas beenmetwith a tepidresponse.
(Definition oftepidfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftepid

tepid
I doubt many parents would find satisfaction in suchtepidrationalizations.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The staff's own reaction to huitlacoche itself was, at best,tepid.
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Temperature is also susceptible to plain language description: hot, warm,tepid, cool, freezing can each be understood as grades.
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All statements of the kind were not astepid.
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Presented as a powder, it is readily constituted into solution intepidwater.
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Our rights of self-defense are not thattepid.
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The majority of the survey provided a far moretepidassessment of encouraging democracy abroad, even for religious minorities.
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If his heart istepid, it is as if he is conceived in the feminine side, which is weaker and defective.
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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.
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Doctors warn patients that if a large amount is taken withtepidwater, it may cause vomiting, which, however, has the advantage of expelling leeches in the throat.
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Worms were first washed intepidphysiological saline, and then fixed in a hot mixture of 40% formaldehyde (10 parts), acetic acid (1 part) and water (89 parts).
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Carried to its logical extremes, this view of literature leads its adherents to reject much of our great literature and to embrace trite andtepidworks of no enduring value.
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They aretepidlittle debates on some little trivial proposals for some superficial reform in the present order of society.
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I think that we must allow some freedom in this respect, otherwise it would become atepidprogramme.
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I am afraid that local authorities have a verytepidand lukewarm view of plan- ning.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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