What are the ratings of warmth?

Answer 1

When describing temperature, the words "cold", "colder". and "coldest", or "warm", "warmer", and "warmest" are used.

Health professionals describe skin temperature as "cool" or "cold", and "warm" or "hot". If comparing two like sides of the body, such as describing temperature differences of the feet or legs, medical personnel would write, for example: "Right foot slightly colder than the left." Staff would also describe or state normal findings in an non-affected side, such as, "Left foot normally warm to touch."

In weather, the terms change a little. Usually "cold", "colder", and "warm", "warmest" are used, unless describing the "coldest" or "wamest" day of that particular period or season. For example, a weather forecaster might report, "Tomorrow will be the warmest day of spring to date" meaning there may be even warmer days later in the year but so far, this forecast will be the "warmest day". Additionally, weather reporters might use "freezing" or "frigid" for cold temperatures, and "hotter", "blazing", or "steamy" for very hot and uncomfortable temperatures. In addition, weather reports include humidity and dew point when describing hot temperature with very high humidity (muggy conditions).

In cooking and in some medical treatments/instructions, the word "tepid" might also be used to describe "warm but cooler than hot" temperature, such as in "use tepid water" or "the tea was tepid".