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cool
[ kool ]
adjective
- moderately cold; neither warm nor cold:
a rather cool evening.
Antonyms:
- feeling comfortably or moderately cold:
I'm perfectly cool, but open the window if you feel hot.
- imparting a sensation of moderate coldness or comfortable freedom from heat:
a cool breeze.
Antonyms:
- permitting such a sensation:
a cool dress.
Antonyms:
- not excited; calm; composed; under control:
to remain cool in the face of disaster.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- not hasty; deliberate:
a cool and calculated action.
- lacking in interest or enthusiasm:
a cool reply to an invitation.
Synonyms: , , , ,
Antonyms:
- lacking in warmth or cordiality:
a cool reception.
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Antonyms:
- calmly audacious or impudent:
a cool lie.
- aloof or unresponsive; indifferent:
He was cool to her passionate advances.
- unaffected by emotions; disinterested; dispassionate:
She made a cool appraisal of all the issues in the dispute.
- Informal. (of a number or sum) without exaggeration or qualification:
a cool million dollars.
- (of colors) with green, blue, or violet predominating.
- Slang.
- great; fine; excellent:
a real cool comic.
- characterized by great facility; highly skilled or clever:
cool maneuvers on the parallel bars.
- socially adept:
It's not cool to arrive at a party too early.
- acceptable; satisfactory; okay:
If you want to stay late, that's cool.
adverb
- Informal. coolly.
interjection
- Slang.
- (used to express acceptance):
Okay, cool! I'll be there at 10:00.
- (used to express approval, admiration, etc.):
He got the job? Cool!
noun
- something that is cool; a cool part, place, time, etc.:
in the cool of the evening.
- coolness.
- calmness; composure; poise:
an executive noted for maintaining her cool under pressure.
verb (used without object)
- to become cool (sometimes followed by down or off ):
The soup cooled in five minutes. We cooled off in the mountain stream.
- to become less ardent, cordial, etc.; become moderate.
verb (used with object)
- to make cool; impart a sensation of coolness to.
- to lessen the ardor or intensity of; allay; calm; moderate:
Disappointment cooled his early zealousness.
Synonyms: ,
verb phrase
- Informal. to become calmer or more reasonable:
Wait until he cools off before you talk to him again.
- Slang. to calm or settle down; relax:
cooling out at the beach.
cool
/ ː /
adjective
- moderately cold
a cool day
- comfortably free of heat
a cool room
- producing a pleasant feeling of coldness
a cool shirt
- able to conceal emotion; calm
a cool head
- lacking in enthusiasm, affection, cordiality, etc
a cool welcome
- calmly audacious or impudent
- informal.(esp of numbers, sums of money, etc) without exaggeration; actual
a cool ten thousand
- (of a colour) having violet, blue, or green predominating; cold
- (of jazz) characteristic of the late 1940s and early 1950s, economical and rhythmically relaxed
- informal.sophisticated or elegant, esp in an unruffled way
- informal.excellent; marvellous
adverb
- not_standard.in a cool manner; coolly
noun
- coolness
the cool of the evening
- slang.calmness; composure (esp in the phrases keep or lose one's cool )
- slang.unruffled elegance or sophistication
verb
- usually foll bydown or off to make or become cooler
- usually foll bydown or off to lessen the intensity of (anger or excitement) or (of anger or excitement) to become less intense; calm down
- cool it slang.usually imperative to calm down; take it easy
- cool one's heelsto wait or be kept waiting
Derived Forms
- ˈǴDZԱ, noun
- ˈǴDZ, adverb
- ˈǴDZ, adjective
- ˈǴDZԲ, adverb
- ˈǴDZԲԱ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- ǴDZ·Բ· adverb
- ǴDZ· adjective
- ǴDZ· adverb
- ǴDZ·Ա noun
- ··ǴDZ adjective
- o·ver·ǴDZ· adverb
- o·ver·ǴDZ·Ա noun
- ·ǴDZ verb
- ܲ·ǴDZ verb (used with object)
- ܱ·ٰ·ǴDZ adjective
- ܲ·ǴDZ adjective
- well-cooled adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of cool1
Idioms and Phrases
- cool it, Slang. calm down; take it easy.
- blow one's cool. blow 2( def 48 ).
- cool one's heels. heel 1( def 29 ).
More idioms and phrases containing cool
- keep cool
- keep one's cool
- play it cool
Example Sentences
"I'm thinking, you're risking your life every single day because of what you believe to be perceived as a good thing, as a cool thing," he says.
State officials say homes should be able to be cooled to a safe indoor air temperature of 82 degrees F. The legislature will now take up the report.
“I wasn’t really interested in the business side of it. I was just more interested as a player in: What fits right? What’s cool? What’s not cool?”
“It’s a super cool place that you can just chill at,” said Amy Martinez, who grew up in Riverside, moved to Upland and returned to see the opening with her family.
"There are papers now, already, that had been published and then retracted, because it turned out that what we thought was a really cool thing was just another satellite."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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