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発音

• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)m
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌluːkˈwɔːm/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌlukˈwɔɹm/, /ˈluk.wɔɹm/

形容詞

lukewarm (comparative lukewarmer or more lukewarm, superlative lukewarmest or most lukewarm)

1. (temperature) Between warm and cool.

   Synonyms: Laodicean, (dialect) lew, (rare) luke, tepid

   Coordinate term: underwarm

   Wash it in lukewarm water.

   My curry is lukewarm.

2. Unenthusiastic (about a proposal or an idea).

   Synonyms: indifferent, unconcerned; see also Thesaurus:apathetic

   The suggestion met with only a lukewarm response.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.

   • 1957 July, D. S. M. Barrie, “Sixty Years of British Express Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 457:

     The centre-vestibule "open" type of coach, which met with a very lukewarm reception when first introduced over half-a-century ago, is now used in increasing numbers as a non-dining vehicle.

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