Meaning of lukecold | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Between warm and cool temperatures, but cooler than lukewarm.
   rare
2. Not very enthusiastic (about a proposal or an idea) and less enthusiastic than lukewarm would imply.
   rare

Examples

“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.”

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