Lukewarm and Pushing

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Lukewarm adjective - Having or giving off heat to a moderate degree.

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Pushing is an antonym for lukewarm.

Pushing adjective - Having a strong desire for personal advancement.

Usage example: among the young associates at the law firm, he was unmistakably the most pushing

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Lukewarm is an antonym for pushing.

Nearby Words: push, pushed, pushy, pusher, pushful

Made funnier (and lampshaded) in The Christmas Show, where he is the one pushing doing a Christmas show while others are lukewarm at best to the idea.

Source: Informed Judaism

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