Synonyms for tepid
ˈtɛp ɪdtepid

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1. tepidadjective

   Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.

   I'm drinking a cup of tepid water.

   Synonyms:
   uninterested, lukewarm

2. tepidadjective

   Uninterested; exhibiting little passion or eagerness.

   He gave me a tepid response to the proposal.

   Synonyms:
   lukewarm, uninterested

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1. lukewarm, tepidadjective

   moderately warm

   "he hates lukewarm coffee"; "tepid bath water"

   Synonyms:
   halfhearted, lukewarm, half-hearted

   Antonyms:
   enthusiastic, cool

2. halfhearted, half-hearted, tepid, lukewarmadjective

   feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm

   "a halfhearted effort"; "gave only lukewarm support to the candidate"

   Synonyms:
   halfhearted, lukewarm, half-hearted

   Antonyms:
   enthusiastic, cool

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1. tepidadjective

   Synonyms:
   lukewarm, slightly warm

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1. List of paraphrases for "tepid":

   lukewarm, tibia, warm, soured, half-hearted

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1. Charles Krauthammer:

   [Her argument] is a rather tepid one. I’m not against it, I’m not for it. His is strong.

2. Martina Ferencova:

   Breweries are investing in new pub concepts primarily due to the annual decline in on-trade, draft beer, consumers are also demanding more. Besides the shift to home drinking, partly boosted by a ban on smoking in 2017, traditional pubs are also up against more wine and cocktail bars favored by some younger drinkers. A new electronic ordering system introduced in 2016 to track sales - and make sure pubs and restaurants paid all taxes due - also forced a number of pubs to go under. Currently, around 65 percent of the beer sold in The Czech Republic is in stores, a figure on the rise and one Prazdroj and other breweries believe will continue to increase. With domestic consumption tepid, breweries have looked to foreign markets to offset declines at home and exports jumped nearly 12 percent in 2018. But getting Czechs back to the pub remains key, beer makers and industry officials say.

3. Anita Gandhi:

   Tech stocks have enjoyed good price momentum and a few heavyweights recently reported results that were in line with expectations ... so we can expect some routine profit taking and tepid share performance.

4. Mohamed El-Erian:

   While job creation continues at a solid pace, wage growth remains frustratingly tepid, the Federal Reserve will now wait for the next report to decide on a September rate hike.

5. Justin Wolfers:

   I do think it more likely that the bad news on inflation is more transitory than the good news on jobs, and if you went back two years ago and offered me the choice of whether to risk somewhat overheating the economy, as we did this time, or undershooting and creating a long, slow, tepid recovery, as we did in 2008, I would have chosen the risk of overheating.