Meaning of warm in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

adjective

• Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.

  Example: The tea is still warm.

• Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.

  Example: We have a warm friendship.

• Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.

• Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal.

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

• Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness

  Example: a warm piano sound

• Ardent, zealous.

  Example: a warm debate, with strong words exchanged

• Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; rich.

• Requiring arduous effort.

noun

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

  Example: Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?

verb

• To make or keep warm.

• To become warm, to heat up.

  Example: My socks are warming by the fire.

• To favour increasingly.

  Example: He is warming to the idea.

• To become ardent or animated.

  Example: The speaker warms as he proceeds.

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

• To beat or spank.