warm
Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.
Adjective 4 meanings
Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.
“The tea is still warm.”
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.
Close to a goal or correct answer.
“Earlier you were way off, but now you're getting warmer.”
Verb 4 meanings
To make or keep warm.
To become warm, to heat up.
“My socks are warming by the fire.”
(sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly.
“He is warming to the idea.”
To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.
Noun 1 meaning
The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.
“Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?”
Etymology
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”).
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WARM at a glance
WARM has 4 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (W 4 + A 1 + R 1 + M 3) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,975 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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