lukewarm
adjective/ˈluːkwɔːrm/
Frequency rank: #11,906 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
only slightly warm; neither hot nor cold.
Example sentence
The coffee had been sitting on the counter for too long and was now lukewarm.
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