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Definition of 'cool'English
Alternative forms
* (slang) coo, kewl, kool, qewl, qool
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . Related to (l).
Adjective
( er)
Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
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|passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:
Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
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Of a person, not showing emotion, calm and in self-control.
Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.
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Calmly audacious.
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* (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
- Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.
* 1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:
- My father was talking to the World's Fair Commission yesterday, and they estimate it's going to cost a cool fifty million.
(label) Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.
(label) In fashion, part of or fitting the in crowd; originally hipster slang.
* 2008 , Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in'' Nate Green, ''Built for Show , page xii
- The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.
(label) Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.
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(label) A dismissal of a comment perceived as boring or pointless.
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(label) Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting.
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* (Henry Fielding) (1707-1754)
- He had lost a cool hundred.
* (Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)
- leaving a cool four thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket
Synonyms
* (having a slightly low temperature) chilly
* (not showing emotion) distant, phlegmatic, standoffish, unemotional
* (in fashion)
** (standard) , fashionable, in fashion, modish, stylish
** (colloquial or slang) happening, hip, in, trendy
* (acceptable) acceptable, all right, OK
* (not upset) easy, fine, not bothered, not fussed'''
Antonyms
* (having a slightly low temperature) lukewarm, tepid, warm
* (not showing emotion) passionate
* (knowing what to do and how to behave) awkward, uncool
* (in fashion) , old hat, out, out of fashion
* (acceptable) not cricket (UK), not on, unacceptable
* (not upset) bothered, upset
* (unenthusiastic) warm
Derived terms
* cool head
* coolish
* coolly
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* coolness
* keep one's cool
* lose one's cool
( rel-mid3)
* uncool
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Quotations
* The earliest use of the word in this way seems to be in ' "The Moonstone" 1868:
*: "She has been a guest of yours at this house," I answered. "May I venture to suggest — if nothing was said about me beforehand — that I might see her here?"
*: "Cool!" said Mr. Bruff. With that one word of comment on the reply that I had made to him, he took another turn up and down the room.
*: "In plain English," he said, "my house is to be turned into a trap to catch Rachel ...
* In 1602, Shakespeare wrote that Queen Gertrude told Hamlet:
*: "O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, Sprinkle cool patience."
Noun
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A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
- in the cool of the morning
A calm temperament.
Synonyms
*(calm temperament) calmness, composure
Etymology 2
From (etyl) colen, from (etyl) , altered to resemble the adjective cool. See (l).
Verb
( en-verb)
(literally) To lose heat, to get colder.
- I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue.
To make cooler, less warm.
* Bible, Luke xvi. 24:
- Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.
(figuratively) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
- Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.
To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
* Shakespeare:
- We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts.
Derived terms
* coolant
* cooler
* cooling
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* cool off
* cool down
* cool it
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* cool one's heels
* cool one's jets
( rel-bottom)
Similar to 'cool'cell, coal, call, col, cull, ceil, cowl, caul, chill, coil, coll, cal, cel, cill, choil, chiel, cawl
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