cool
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Adjective (7)coolest
- neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat“a cool autumn day”“a cool room”“cool summer dresses”“cool drinks”“a cool breeze”Opposite warmSimilar water-cooled, precooled, air-conditioned, caller, air-cooledRelates to temperatureSee also cold
- marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional“play it cool”“keep cool”“stayed coolheaded in the crisis”“the most nerveless winner in the history of the tournament”Synonyms: coolheadednervelessOpposite discomposedSimilar composed
- inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets when referring to color“cool greens and blues and violets”“the cool sound of rushing water”Opposite warmSimilar cold
- psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike“relations were cool and polite”“a cool reception”“cool to the idea of higher taxes”Opposite warmSimilar unresponsiveRelates to emotionality, emotionalismSee also unagitated, unemotional, unfriendly, cold
- being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition“an all-right movie”“the passengers were shaken up but are all right”“is everything all right?”“everything's fine”“things are okay”“dinner and the movies had been fine”“another minute I'd have been fine”Synonyms: all rightfineo.k.okokayhunky-doryOpposite unsatisfactorySimilar satisfactory
- used of a quantity or amount (especially of money) for emphasis“a cool million bucks”Opposite qualifiedSimilar unqualified
- fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept“he's a cool dude”“that's cool”“Mary's dress is really cool”“it's not cool to arrive at a party too early”
Verb (3)cools, cooled, cooling
- make cool or cooler“Chill the food”Synonyms: chillcool downMore general change, alterMore specific quench, refrigerate, iceCauses chill, cool down
- loose heat“The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm”Synonyms: chillcool downMore general change state, turn
- lose intensity“His enthusiasm cooled considerably”Synonyms: cool offcool downMore general change
Noun (2)cools
- the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature“the cool of early morning”Type of coldness, cold
- great coolness and composure under strain“keep your cool”Synonyms: aplombassurednesspoisesang-froidType of composure, calm
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Translations
Adjective having a slightly low temperature
- Spanish
- fresco
- French
- frais
- German
- kühl
- Italian
- fresco
- Portuguese
- fresco
- Turkish
- serin
- Russian
- прохла́дный proxládnyj
- Arabic
- مَائِل لِلْبُرُودَة māʔil li-l-burūda
- Chinese
- 凉快 liángkuai
- Japanese
- 涼しい suzushii
36 more languages
- Dutch
- koel
- Polish
- chłodny
- Swedish
- sval
- Greek
- δροσερός droserós
- Korean
- 시원하다 siwonhada
- Indonesian
- sejuk
- Vietnamese
- mát
- Hungarian
- hűvös
- Portuguese (PT)
- fresco
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 涼快 liángkuài
- Albanian
- i freskët
- Breton
- fresk
- Catalan
- fresc
- Corsican
- frescu
- Czech
- chladný
- Danish
- kølig
- Esperanto
- malvarmeta
- Estonian
- jahe
- Finnish
- viileä
- Georgian
- გრილი grili
- Hebrew
- קָרִיר karír
- Icelandic
- svalur
- Kurdish
- hênik
- Latvian
- vēss
- Lithuanian
- vėsus
- Malagasy
- mangatsiatsiaka
- Norwegian
- kjølig
- Romanian
- răcoros
- Scottish Gaelic
- fionnar
- Serbo-Croatian
- prohladan
- Slovak
- chladný
- Slovenian
- hladen
- Swahili
- baridi
- Walloon
- frisse
- Welsh
- oeraidd
- Yiddish
- קיל kil
Adjective fashionable, trendy
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: AS. cōl; akin to D. koel, G. kühl, OHG. chouli, Dan. kölig, Sw. kylig, also to AS. calan to be cold, Icel. kala. See Cold, and cf. Chill.
1. Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.
Fanned with cool winds.— John Milton
2. Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater.
For a patriot, too cool.— Oliver Goldsmith
3. Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.
4. Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.
5. Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.
Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.— Nathaniel Hawthorne
6. Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
He had lost a cool hundred.— Henry Fielding
Leaving a cool thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket.— Charles Dickens
Synonyms: Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed; repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.
A moderate state of cold; coolness; — said of the temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.
1. To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water.
Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.— Luke xvi. 24.
2. To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.
We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts.— William Shakespeare
To cool the heels, to dance attendance; to wait, as for admission to a patron's house. colloquial John Dryden
1. To become less hot; to lose heat.
I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, the whilst his iron did on the anvil cool.— William Shakespeare
2. To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate.
I will not give myself liberty to think, lest I should cool.— William Congreve
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
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<language> 1. Concurrent Object-Oriented Language.
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