cool

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Meaning

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. (informal) Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by others.
9. (informal) Fashionable; trendy and hip.
10. (informal) All right; acceptable.
11. (informal) Very interesting or exciting.
12. (informal) (followed by with) Able to tolerate; to be fine with.
13. (informal) (of a pair of people) Having good relations.

cold

refrigerate

become cool

be cold

make cold

get cold

be tolerant

fine-looking

frigorific

refrigeratory

ruly

be cool

let cool

throw a damper on

chilldown

self-collected

frigidity

ventilation

be cooled

become cold

be great

unstirred

selfpossessed

be refreshing

self-composed

free from agitation

not excited

not exposed to heat

unlittered

cooling action

sober-blooded

tolerant person

of the moment

cool-off

cool-down

jeer at

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kuːl/

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 Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian köil (“cool”), West Frisian koel (“cool”), Dutch koel (“cool”), Limburgish kool (“cool”), German Low German köhl (“cool”), German kühl (“cool”). Related to cold.