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Definition of Tepid

1. Adjective. Moderately warm. "Tepid bath water"

2. Adjective. Feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm. "Gave only lukewarm support to the candidate"

Definition of Tepid

1. a. Moderately warm; lukewarm; as, a tepid bath; tepid rays; tepid vapors.

Definition of Tepid

1. moderately warm [adj] : TEPIDLY [adv]

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tepid

tepefying tephra tephras tephrite tephrite tephrites tephritic tephroite tephromalacia tephrosia

Tephrosia Tephrosia purpurea Tephrosia virginiana tephrylometer Tepic tepid (current term) tepider tepidest tepidities tepidity

tepidly tepidness tepidnesses tepoy tepoys TEPP teprotide tequila tequilas tequilla

Literary usage of Tepid

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1. Medical Reports, on the Effects of Water, Cold and Warm: As a Remedy in by James Currie (1805)
"The evaporation from the surface is more copious from the tepid affusion, ... But this is not all; the tepid affusion is little if at all stimulating, ..."

2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"The act or operation of making tepid, or moderately warm. Imp. Diet. midrib. ... Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave. Goldsmith, Traveller, 1. ..."

3. A Dictionary of treatment by William Whitla (1892)
"Powdered borax, î ounce to 1 quart of tepid water. Sulphate of zinc, 2 drachms to 1 quart of tepid water. Boric acid, i ounce to 1 quart of tepid water. ..."

4. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1907)
"... glycosuria was suppressed by free sweating, and the sugar appeared in the sweat. III.—tepid OR INDIFFERENT BATHS. We have already mentioned that the ..."

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