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–adjective 
1. moderately warm; lukewarm: tepid [water]. 
2. characterized by a lack of force or enthusiasm: tepid [prose]; the critics' tepid [reception] for the new play.  

—Synonyms 
1 moderate, mild. 2. unemotional, halfhearted, apathetic.


　
Launched at the same Cannes Film Festival that premiered Wong Kar Wai's first non-Chinese-language movie, My Blueberry Nights (also opening here this week), Flight of the Red Balloon was as tepidly [received] by French critics as My Blueberry Nights was by Americans. 


see insipidness tidbit

bashful
diffident timid
tepid lukewarm