warm

1. 1.

   get warm or warmer

   “The soup warmed slowly on the stove”

   Synonymswarm up

   Broaderchange
2. 2.

   make warm or warmer

   “The blanket will warm you”

   Broaderchange

   Narrowerchafe

1. 1.

   in a warm manner

   “warmly dressed”

   “warm-clad skiers”

   Synonymswarmly

Other forms of warm

past tense

warmed·

present participle

warming·

third person

warms·

comparative

warmer·

superlative

warmest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about warm

What does warm mean?

warm means "having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat". That is the primary sense; the word has 12 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in warm?

warm has 1 syllable: warm. In IPA it is /ˈwɔɹm/.

What is another word for warm?

Close synonyms include strong, quick, ardent, warm up, warmly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of warm?

The recorded antonyms are cool, cool, cool.

Is warm a common word?

warm is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.