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[TEP-id] 
1. moderately warm; lukewarm: "Please wait until the kettle comes to a full boil so we don't have to deal with tepid coffee."
2. showing little enthusiasm or emotional warmth: "I had been eagerly anticipating our meeting, but he responded to me in such a tepid manner that my enthusiasm quickly vanished."
noun form: tepidity, tepidness
adverb form: tepidly
Origin:
Before 1400; from Middle English, 'teped'; borrowed from Latin, 'tepidus': lukewarm, from 'tepere': to be lukewarm. In action:
"The opening days of the fall 2002 Italian collections favor conspicuous craftsmanship, the odd eccentric detail and a more blatant femininity, perhaps as antidotes to a tepid economy. At MaxMara on Saturday, peasant tops were scissored in strips and gathered with ribbons. Leather patchwork appeared on vests, trimmed with fur, while knits and chunky coats batted with eyelash curls of fluff -- a trend this season."
Cathy Horyn. "Review/Fashion; In Milan, Sex Is Subject to Interpretation," The New York Times (March 4, 2002).
"The measuring out of life in tepid teacups."
[On contemporary English drama] Time magazine (March 26, 1965).
"'At turns atrocious, tasteless, tepid, and self-parodying, the Schnell discography is a perfect encapsulation of the listening tastes of the American bourgeoisie in the mid- to late 20th century, as well as a knee-slappingly hilarious compendium of misguided trends in popular music,' said Lydia Dreifort, director of the Alan Lomax Center For American Ethnomusicology in Oxford, MS. 'Can you believe they actually own Neil Diamond's Jonathan Livingston Seagull?'"
"Parents' Record Collection Deemed Hilarious," The Onion.com.
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