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Warm

adjective

(compar. warmer; superl. warmest)

1.

Having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat. "A warm room" , "A warm climate" , "A warm coat" Antonym: cool.

2.

Psychologically warm; friendly and responsive. "A warm personality" , "Warm support" Antonym: cool.

3.

(color) inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows. Antonym: cool.

4.

Having or displaying warmth or affection. Synonyms: affectionate, fond, lovesome, tender. "A fond embrace" , "Fond of his nephew" , "A tender glance" , "A warm embrace"

5.

Freshly made or left. Synonym: strong. "The scent is warm"

6.

Easily aroused or excited. Synonym: quick. "A warm temper"

7.

Characterized by strong enthusiasm. Synonym: ardent. "Warm support"

8.

Characterized by liveliness or excitement or disagreement.

9.

Uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble.

10.

Of a seeker; near to the object sought. "Hot on the trail"

verb

(past & past part. warmed; pres. part. warming)

1.

Get warm or warmer. Synonym: warm up.

2.

Make warm or warmer.

adverb

1.

In a warm manner. Synonym: warmly. "Warm-clad skiers"

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"Warm" Quotes from Famous Books

... by his stay in this place, by once more overhauling the Swallow, and attending to the leak, which the carpenters doctored as well as they could. The sheathing was greatly worn, and the keel quite gnawed away by worms; they coated it with pitch and warm tar ...

— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century • Jules Verne

... partly resting on it, he again drifted down with the current. All night he floated down the river, and when morning came he was far from the camp of the Snakes. Benumbed with cold and stiff from the arrow wounds, he was glad to crawl out on the bank, and lie down in the warm sunshine. Soon ...

— Blackfoot Lodge Tales • George Bird Grinnell

... meal was concluded; the smoke was over; and the more careful men were back in the shed sharpening their shears by two o'clock. Punctually at that hour the bell repeated its summons DE CAPO. The warm afternoon gradually lengthened its shadows; the shears clicked in tireless monotone; the pens filled and became empty. The wool-presses yawned for the mountain of fleeces which filled the bins in front of them, divided into various grades of excellence, and continuously disgorged ...

— Shearing in the Riverina, New South Wales • Rolf Boldrewood

... indispensable as a defense against the Indians. Seth, the Yankee, had similarly engaged to dig a well close to the house. No supervision of them was therefore necessary. Lopez was to accompany them. Each took a double-barreled gun and a revolver. The day was very fine—about as hot as upon a warm day in June in England. Mr. Hardy proposed that they should first ride westerly as far as the property extended, six miles from the river; that they should then go to the south until they reached that boundary, and should follow that to the river, by whose banks they should return, and ...

— On the Pampas • G. A. Henty

... it you should be thus warm, Still pushing counsels when among your friends; Yet, at the court, cautious, and cold as age, Your voice, your eyes, your mien so different, You seem to ...

— The Works Of John Dryden, Vol. 7 (of 18) - The Duke of Guise; Albion and Albanius; Don Sebastian • John Dryden

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