lukecold
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Between warm and cool temperatures, but cooler than lukewarm.
adj
Not very enthusiastic (about a proposal or an idea) and less enthusiastic than lukewarm would imply.
Example Sentences
- "A hot, more strictly speaking, a luke-cold, bath was welcome at this point, and in the dry clothes brought by the poste and a new pair of slippers, purchased on the spot for two and a half francs, I was perfectly comfortable, and, as usual, in that happy frame of mind that a hard day's tramp always brings."
- "When Mrs. Whittle asked Billie if the water in the Rest Room was cold, Billie replied in the affirmative, but Mrs. Whittle, after taking a drink of it, said: “Billie, that water is not cold,” to which Billie replied: “Well, it is luke cold.”"
- "She put her hand on a luke-cold milk bottle and said, "Did Rudy come today?""
- "Jeff took a slug of his lukecold beer."
- "In Texas, Conservative Price Daniel gave lukecold support to the Kennedy-Johnson ticket but had blazing hot support from the voters, who gave him a runaway third-term victory over Dallas Republican William Steger."
- "Since industry is the principal supporter and indirectly financiers of the regulating bodies, the response by said group is veritably lukecold to those who fall in the human sub-set of sensitive reactions to pesticides."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more lukecold (comparative)
most lukecold (superlative)