warmest

1. 1
   adjective

   Superlative of warm.

   The kitchen is the warmest room in the house during winter.

   July is usually the warmest month of the year in that region.

   Note

   The top of warm's scale is built with the -est ending rather than with most, as short adjectives usually are. It carries every sense of warm, not only temperature: the warmest welcome is the friendliest, and the warmest colors lie toward red. The same spelling also serves the archaic thou-form of the verb. A following noun, or the word thou in front, tells you which one you are reading.

2. 2
   verbarchaic

   Archaic second-person singular simple present indicative of warm.

   Note

   An old verb form that pairs only with thou: thou warmest, thou warmest thyself. Here the -est ending marks the second-person singular present, and modern English has replaced the whole pattern with you warm. It works for every use of the verb, both literal heating and the figurative warming of a heart or a crowd. Today it belongs only to writing that deliberately sounds archaic.

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