warm
adjective
psychologically warm; friendly and responsive
- “a warm greeting”
- “a warm personality”
- “warm support”
(color) inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows
- “warm reds and yellows and orange”
verb
adverb
Origin
From Middle English warm, werm, from Old English wearm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, from one of: * Proto-Indo-European *wór-mo-s, from *wer- (“to burn”), which is related to Hittite 𒉿𒊏𒀀𒉌 (warāni, “to burn”), Armenian վառել (vaṙel, “to burn, heat, warm”), Old Church Slavonic варити (variti, “to cook, boil”).
Phrases
- cold hands, warm heart
- like death warmed over
- warm antibody
- warm as life
- warm as toast
- warm bank
- warm body
- warm boot
- warm carl
- warm down
- warm over
- warm someone's heart
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