Warm

/wɔːm/ · adjective

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.
2. Friendly and with affection.
3. Having a color in the part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum between red and yellow-green.
4. (informal) Close to a goal or correct answer.
5. Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
6. (figurative) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness.
7. (archaic) Ardent, zealous.
8. (dated, informal) Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.

Example Sentences

The tea is still warm.

This is a very warm room.

Warm and still is the summer night.

It seemed I was too excited for sleep, too warm, too young.

While the study doesn’t directly shed light on why, it suggested that maintaining a similar degree of mobility as the climate changed to the warmer and wetter pattern we have today could have imparted additional stress as the mammoth encountered unfamiliar environments or restricted its movement.

Kids jump into Lake Michigan during unseasonably warm conditions in Chicago on February 26, 2024. […] This winter was the warmest on record for the Lower 48, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information said Friday. Records date to the late 1800s.

We have a warm friendship.

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

Synonyms for warm

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Word Forms

• warmer
• warmest
• warme
• warms
• warming
• warmed

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