warm
Pronunciation Etymology 1
Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Middle English warm, werm, from Old English wearm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, with different proposed origins:
- Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer-, related to Ancient Greek θερμός, Latin formus, Sanskrit घर्म.
- Proto-Indo-European *wer-, related to
and to Church Slavic варити. The dispute is due to differing opinions on how initial Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰ- evolved in Germanic: some think that *gʷʰ would have turned to *b, and that the root *gʷʰer- would instead have given rise to burn etc. Some have also proposed a merger of the two roots.
warm (comparative warmer, superlative warmest)
- Of a somewhat high temperature.
- The tea is still warm.
- This is a very warm room.
- 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Herons of Elmwood:
- Warm and still is the summer night.
- Friendly and with affection.
- We have a warm friendship.
- Having a color in the part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum between red and yellow-green.
- (informal) Close to a goal or correct answer.
- 1876, William Black, “An Encounter”, in Madcap Violet. […], volume III, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC ↗, page 74 ↗:
- That was a further clue; and here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting "warm," as children say at blind-man's-buff, although, as a matter-of-fact, she had now been talking of George Miller at all.
- Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
- (figurative) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness.
- a warm piano sound
- (archaic) Ardent, zealous.
- a warm debate, with strong words exchanged
- 1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, “Song on May Morning”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC ↗:
- Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!
- 1712 September 22 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, September 11, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 481; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC ↗:
- They say he's a warm man and does not care to be made mouths at.
- The spelling has been modernized.
- 1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC ↗:
- 1776, Edward Gibbon, chapter I, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC ↗:
- To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they added a contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC ↗:
- I had been none of the warmest of partisans.
- (archaic, informal) Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.
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- 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.
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1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC ↗:- I know the Stuyvesant family —puff— every one of them —puff— not a more respectable family in the province —puff— old standards —puff— warm householders —puff— none of your upstarts
- (archaic) Requiring arduous effort.
Synonyms- See also Thesaurus:warm
- See also Thesaurus:affectionate
- See also Thesaurus:difficult
- (antonym(s) of “mild temperature”): Arctic, cold, cool, frozen
- (antonym(s) of “caring”): Arctic, cold, cool, frozen
- French: chaud, chaude
- German: warm
- Italian: caldo
- Portuguese: morno, quente
- Russian: тёплый
- Spanish: caliente, cálido, caluroso (weather)
- French: chaleureux, chaleureuse
- Italian: caldo, caloroso, cordiale
- Portuguese: morno
- Russian: тёплый
- French: cordial, cordiale
- German: warmherzig, fürsorglich
- Italian: caloroso
- Portuguese: caloroso, cordial
From Old English wierman.
Verbwarm (warms, present participle warming; simple past and past participle warmed)
- (transitive) To make or keep warm.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Isaiah 44 44-Chapter-15/# 15: ↗:
- Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.
- 1825, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus:
- enough to warm, but not enough to burn
- (intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.
- My socks are warming by the fire.
- The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.
- (intransitive) (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly. >[with to]
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC ↗:
- Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.
- He is warming to the idea.
- Her classmates are gradually warming to her.
- (ditransitive with to) To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.
- (intransitive) To become ardent or animated.
- The speaker warms as he proceeds.
- (transitive) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
- 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.
- 1827, [John Keble], The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC ↗:
- Bright hopes, that erst the bosom warmed.
- 1717 November 20, Alexander Pope, letter to the Bishop of Rochester
- (transitive) To give emotional warmth to a person.
- (transitive, colloquial) To beat or spank.
- 1945, The Atlantic, volume 176, page 94:
- 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 ignored […]
- (transitive, colloquial) To scold or abuse verbally.
- (computing, transitive) To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.
- French: chauffer, échauffer, réchauffer
- German: wärmen
- Italian: riscaldare, scaldare
- Portuguese: aquecer, esquentar
- Russian: греть
- Spanish: calentar
- Italian: accostarsi a, affezionarsi a
warm (plural warms)
- (colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.
- Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?
- 1843 December 18, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the page number)”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC ↗:
- Sit ye down before the fire , my dear , and have a warm
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