cool

Meaning

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. (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.

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. (slang) To kill, murder.
6. (slang) To relax, hang out.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kuːl/

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 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.

Sentences

At some high hill passes the range provides cool sites appropriate for vineyards .