different between lukewarm vs negligent

English

Etymology

From Middle English leukwarm, lukewarm (“lukewarm, tepid”), equivalent to luke (“lukewarm”) +? warm. Compare Saterland Frisian luukwoarm (“lukewarm”), German Low German luukwarm (“lukewarm”),German lauwarm (“lukewarm”). First element believed to be an alteration of Middle English lew (“tepid”) (> English dialectal lew), from Old English hl?ow (“warm, sunny”), from Proto-Germanic *hliwjaz, *hl?waz, *hl?maz, *hleumaz (“warm”), from Proto-Indo-European *?al(w)e-, *?el(w)e-, *k(')l?w- (“warm, hot”). Cognate with Dutch lauw (“tepid”), German lauwarm (“lukewarm”), Faroese lýggjur (“warm”), Swedish ljum (“lukewarm”), ljummen (“lukewarm”) and ly (“warm”), Danish lummer (“muggy”), Danish and Norwegian lunken (“tepid”), dialectal Swedish ljummen (“lukewarm”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(r)m
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?lu?k?w??m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?luk?w??m/, /?luk.w??m/

Adjective

lukewarm (comparative lukewarmer or more lukewarm, superlative lukewarmest or most lukewarm)

1. (temperature) Between warm and cool.

2. Not very enthusiastic (about a proposal or an idea).

Synonyms

• lew (dialect)
• luke (rare)
• tepid

Derived terms

• lukecold

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English necligent, negligent, from Old French negligent, from Latin neglig?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n??.l?.d??nt/

Adjective

negligent (comparative more negligent, superlative most negligent)

1. Careless, without appropriate or sufficient attention.
2. (law) Culpable due to negligence.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:careless

Related terms

• negligence

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin neglig?ns.

Adjective

negligent (masculine and feminine plural negligents)

1. negligent

Related terms

• negligència
• negligir

Further reading

• “negligent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “negligent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “negligent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “negligent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Verb

negligent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of neglig?