warm

1. 1

   Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.

   • The tea is still warm.
   • This is a very warm room.
2. 2

   Friendly and with affection.

   • We have a warm friendship.
3. 3

   Having a color in the part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum between red and yellow-green.

4. 4

   Close to a goal or correct answer.informal

   • Earlier you were way off, but now you're getting warmer.
5. 5

   Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.

6. 6

   Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness.figuratively

   • a warm piano sound
7. 7

   Ardent, zealous.archaic

   • a warm debate, with strong words exchanged
8. 8

   Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.datedinformal

   • You shall have a draught upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he is as warm a man as any within five miles round him.
   • Mrs. and the Miss Cathcarts began to be considered as people of some consequence in the circle in which they moved, while he gradually obtained in the city the name of a warm man.
9. 9

   Requiring arduous effort.archaic

   • The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way.

syn. warm · tepid · mild · balmy

ant. Arctic · cold · cool · frozen

1. 1

   To make or keep warm.transitive

   • Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.
   • enough to warm, but not enough to burn
2. 2

   To become warm, to heat up.intransitive

   • My socks are warming by the fire.
   • The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.
3. 3

   (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly.intransitive

   • He is warming to the idea.
   • Her classmates are gradually warming to her.
4. 4

   To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.ditransitive

   • It is with no small degree of irony that I confess that immersing myself in an interdisciplinary project has warmed me to the seductions of disciplinary perspectives.
5. 5

   To become ardent or animated.intransitive

   • The speaker warms as he proceeds.
6. 6

   To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.transitive

   • 1717 November 20, Alexander Pope, letter to the Bishop of Rochester there was a collection of all that had been written […] : I warmed my head with them.
7. 7

   To give emotional warmth to a person.transitive

   • That is just the way God tells me this book is His Word. I read it, and it warms me and gives me light.
8. 8

   To beat or spank.colloquialtransitive

   • Not bothering to turn around and not missing a mouthful, Myrtle comforted her with threats of "I'll warm your bottom"; "I'll turn you over to your dad"; "I'll lock you in the truck"; "I'll send for the bogey man" — all of which Darleen igno
9. 9

   To scold or abuse verbally.colloquialtransitive

10. 10

    To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.transitive

1. 1

   The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.colloquial

   • Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?