English Explanatory Dictionary

cool

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of a mildly low temperature.
  2. Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
  3. Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
  4. Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
  5. Unenthusiastic; lukewarm; skeptical.
  6. Calmly audacious.
  7. Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
  8. Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by others.
  9. Fashionable; trendy; hip.
  10. All right; acceptable; good.
  11. Very interesting or exciting.
  12. Followed by with: able to tolerate.
noun
  1. A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
  2. A calm temperament.
  3. The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.
verb
  1. To lose heat, to get colder.
  2. To make cooler, less warm.
  3. To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
  4. To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
  5. To kill, murder.
  6. To relax, hang out.
name
  1. Initialism of CLIPS Object-Oriented Language.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. Ellipsis of McCool; a surname from Irish, anglicized form of McCool.

Pronunciation

ko͞ol /kuːl/ /kul/ /kʉl/ /kʲɪul/ /kʲuːl/ /kʲeul/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cool.wav

Word forms

cool cooler coolest c00l coo k00l kewl kool qewl qool coole cools cooling cooled

Etymology

From Middle English cool, from Old English cōl (“cool, cold, tranquil, calm”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōl(ī), from Proto-Germanic *kōlaz, *kōluz (“cool”), from *kalaną (“to be cold, to freeze”), Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold, to freeze”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian kuul, kölj (“cold”), Saterland Frisian köil (“cool”), West Frisian koel (“cool”), Cimbrian khuul (“chilly, cool”), Dutch koel (“cool”), German kühl (“cool”), Low German köhl (“cool”), Luxembourgish kill (“cool”), Vilamovian kił (“cool”); also Latin gelū, gelum, gelus (“frost; chill, cold”), Belarusian хо́лад (xólad, “cold”), Bulgarian хлад (hlad, “chill, coolness”), Czech chlad (“cold”), Macedonian лад (lad, “shade; coolness”), Polish chłód (“cold”), Russian and Ukrainian хо́лод (xólod, “cold”), Serbo-Croatian хла̑д, hlȃd (“shade”), Sanskrit जड (jaḍa, “cold; stiff”), जल (jala, “water”). Related to cold.

Synonyms

chilly distant phlegmatic standoffish unemotional lukewarm tepid à la mode fashionable in fashion modish stylish happening hip in trendy acceptable all right OK awesome neat easy fine not bothered not fussed calmness composure cool down chill refrigerate deheat bool

Antonyms

lukewarm tepid warm passionate awkward uncool démodé old hat out out of fashion not cricket not on unacceptable bothered upset warm up heat heat up

Related words

Cools McCool O'Cool

Derived words

be cool before it was cool blow one's cool coola boola coolamundo cool and the gang cool arrow cool art cool as a cucumber cool bag cool beans cool box coolbox cool burn cool cat coolcation cool center cool chain cool change coolchest cooldrink coolen cool flame cool gray cool grey cool hand cool head cool-headed coolheaded cool-headedness cool heads must prevail cool heads prevail cool heads will prevail coolhouse cool hunter coolhunter coolhunting coolish cool jazz cool kid cool kids' table coolly cool medium coolness coolometer cool-o-meter cool pop cool pose coolroom Cool S coolsome coolspeak cool store cool story bro cool tankard coolth hypercool ice-cool ice cool keep a cool head

Translations

Dutch: afkoelen Dutch: koelen Dutch: verkoelen Dutch: verkillen Finnish: viilentää Russian: охлажда́ть Russian: охлади́ть Slovak: upokojiť Slovak: upokojovať
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