What's The Definition Of Cool?
[n] great coolness and composure under strain; "keep your cool"
[n] the quality of being cool; "the cool of early morning"
[adj] 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"
[adj] (informal) 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"
[adj] (informal; of a number or sum) without exaggeration or qualification; "a cool million bucks"
[adj] neither warm or very cold; giving relief from heat; "a cool autumn day"; "a cool room"; "cool summer dresses"; "cool drinks"; "a cool breeze"
[adj] 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"
[adj] (color) inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets; "cool greens and blues and violets"
[v] loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"
[v] lose intensity; "His enthusiasm cooled considerably"
[v] make cool or cooler; "Chill the food"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Cool: air-conditioned |
air-cooled |
aplomb |
assuredness |
caller |
chill |
chill |
chilly |
composed |
cool down |
cool off |
cooled |
coolheaded |
cooling |
fashionable |
nerveless |
poise |
precooled |
sang-froid |
self-possession |
stylish |
unfriendly |
unqualified |
unresponsive |
water-cooled
Related Terms | Find terms related to Cool: abate |
abnegation |
above all that |
absolute zero |
abstinence |
ace-high |
affectless |
aguey |
aguish |
air-condition |
air-cool |
algid |
algidity |
allay |
aloof |
anesthetized |
apathetic |
aplomb |
appease |
arctic |
arrest |
arrogant |
assassinate |
assured |
at rest |
audacious |
autistic |
aweless |
awelessness |
backward |
bad |
balance |
balanced |
balanced personality |
bang-up |
bashful |
bitterness |
blank |
bleakness |
blue with cold |
blunt |
bold |
bonzer |
boss |
bracing |
brazen |
bridle |
briskness |
Buddha-like composure |
bully |
bump off |
bumptious |
but good |
calculated |
calm |
calm disposition |
calm down |
calm of mind |
calmness |
catatonic |
chattering |
check |
chill |
chilled |
chilliness |
chilling |
chilly |
chromatic |
cloistered |
cold |
cold as charity |
cold-blooded |
coldhearted |
coldness |
collect |
collected |
colorific |
coloring |
commonsense |
compose |
composed |
composure |
conciliate |
confident |
conservatism |
constancy |
constrain |
constrained |
constraint |
contain |
continence |
control |
controlled |
contumelious |
cool off |
coolheaded |
coolheadedness |
cooling |
coolish |
coolness |
coolth |
corking |
countenance |
crackerjack |
cradle |
crispness |
cryogenics |
cryology |
curb |
curtail |
damp |
dampen |
dandy |
decelerate |
decrease in temperature |
deflect |
defuse |
deliberate |
delicious |
detached |
deter |
dichromatic |
diminish |
disaccordant |
disaffect |
discourage |
discreet |
disdainful |
disincline |
disinterest |
dispassion |
dispassionate |
distant |
distract |
dithery |
divert |
divine |
do in |
dompt |
drugged |
ducky |
dulcify |
dull |
dust off |
dwindling |
ease |
easy mind |
ebbing |
emotionally dead |
emotionless |
enjoin |
equable |
equilibrium |
even |
even out |
evenness |
even-tempered |
even-tenored |
exclusive |
execute |
expectation |
expected |
expecting |
expressionless |
fab |
familiar |
fast |
fastness |
fervorless |
fiducial |
fine and dandy |
finish |
firm |
firm as Gibraltar |
firmness |
forbidding |
forward |
freezing |
freezing point |
fresh |
freshen |
freshness |
frigid |
frigidity |
frosted |
frostiness |
frosty |
frozen |
frozen to death |
gear |
gelid |
gelidity |
gentle |
gentleness |
glorious |
glowing |
golden mean |
govern |
great |
groovy |
guard |
guarded |
halcyon |
half-frozen |
halfhearted |
happy medium |
harmonious |
heartless |
heavy |
hinder |
hold |
hold at bay |
hold back |
hold fast |
hold in |
hold in check |
hold in leash |
hold up |
hubristic |
hunky-dory |
hush |
hushed |
ice |
ice-cool |
iciness |
icy |
icy calm |
immovable |
impartiality |
impassible |
impassive |
impersonal |
impertinent |
imperturbability |
imperturbable |
imperturbation |
impudent |
in equilibrium |
inaccessible |
inclemency |
incompatible |
indifferent |
indispose |
indisturbance |
inexcitability |
inexcitable |
infrigidate |
inhibit |
inhospitable |
inimical |
insolent |
insulting |
insusceptible |
intense cold |
introverted |
invariability |
invigorating |
isolated |
jam-up |
judiciousness |
just dandy |
juste-milieu |
keen |
keenness |
keep |
keep back |
keep from |
keep in |
keep in check |
keep under control |
knock off |
Laodicean |
lay |
lay the dust |
lay under restraint |
lenity |
lessen |
levelheaded |
level-headed |
liquidate |
logical |
low temperature |
lukewarm |
lull |
many-colored |
marvy |
matching |
mean |
meden agan |
medley |
mental composure |
middle way |
mildness |
moderate |
moderateness |
moderation |
moderationism |
modest |
moldering |
mollify |
monochromatic |
monochrome |
monochromic |
motley |
neat |
nerve |
neuter |
neutral |
neutrality |
nifty |
nip |
nippiness |
nippy |
nobby |
nodding acceptance |
nonamazedness |
nonamazement |
nonastonishment |
nonchalant |
nonemotional |
nonmarveling |
nonviolence |
nonwonder |
nonwondering |
nothing in excess |
objective |
obtrusive |
obtuse |
offish |
OK |
okay |
Olympian |
Oriental calm |
out of sight |
out of touch |
overconfident |
overpresumptuous |
overweening |
pacific |
pacifism |
pacify |
passionless |
peace of mind |
peaceable |
peaceful |
peacefulness |
peachy |
peachy-keen |
perfunctory |
philosophic composure |
philosophical |
philosophicalness |
philosophy |
phlegmatic |
pigmentary |
placate |
placid |
placidity |
poise |
polychromatic |
pour balm into |
pour balm on |
practical |
pragmatic |
predictable |
premeditated |
presuming |
presumptuous |
prismatic |
procacious |
prohibit |
propitiate |
prudence |
pull |
pull in |
purposeful |
purposive |
pushy |
put away |
put off |
quell |
quench |
quiescent |
quiet |
quiet mind |
quietude |
rainbow |
rational |
rawness |
reasonable |
reduce |
refresh |
refreshing |
refrigerate |
rein |
rein in |
relaxed |
reliability |
reliable |
remote |
removed |
repel |
repose |
reposeful |
reposing |
repress |
repressed |
reserved |
rest |
restful |
resting |
restrain |
restrained |
restraint |
retard |
reticent |
retiring |
retrench |
rigor |
ripping |
rock |
rock to sleep |
rootedness |
rum |
sane |
sangfroid |
sang-froid |
scrumptious |
secluded |
seclusive |
secure |
secureness |
security |
sedateness |
self-abnegation |
self-absorbed |
self-control |
self-controlled |
self-denial |
self-possessed |
self-restraint |
sensational |
sensible |
sequestered |
sequestrated |
serene |
serenity |
set back |
severity |
shaky |
shameless |
sharp air |
sharpness |
sheltered |
shivering |
shivery |
shrinking |
simmer down |
slap-up |
slow down |
smashing |
smooth |
smooth down |
smooth over |
smoothen |
smother |
snub |
sober |
sober-minded |
sobriety |
solid |
solidity |
solitary |
something else |
soothe |
soothingness |
soulless |
sound |
soundness |
spectral |
spiffing |
spiffy |
spiritless |
stability |
stabilize |
stable |
stable equilibrium |
stable state |
standoff |
standoffish |
steadfast |
steadfastness |
steadiness |
steady |
steady nerves |
steady state |
still |
still as death |
stillish |
stilly |
stimulating |
stoic |
stolid |
strained |
straiten |
stunning |
subdue |
subdued |
subsiding |
substantial |
substantiality |
suppress |
suppressed |
swell |
temperance |
temperate |
temperateness |
tense |
tepid |
tinctorial |
tingent |
toning |
tough |
tranquil |
tranquilize |
tranquillity |
turn aside |
turn away |
turn from |
turn off |
unabashed |
unaffable |
unaffectionate |
unagitated |
unamazed |
unamazedness |
unamazement |
unamiable |
unamicable |
unapproachable |
unastonished |
unastonishment |
unastounded |
unawed |
unbewildered |
uncompanionable |
unconcerned |
uncongenial |
uncordial |
undazed |
undazzled |
undeflectability |
undemonstrative |
under control |
undisturbed |
undumbfounded |
unemotional |
unexcessiveness |
unexcitable |
unexcited |
unexpansive |
unextravagance |
unextremeness |
unfeeling |
unflappable |
unflinching |
unfriendly |
ungenial |
unharmonious |
unheated |
uniformity |
unimpassioned |
unimpressed |
unimpressibleness |
unimpressionable |
uninterested |
uninvolved |
unloving |
unmarveling |
unmoved |
unpassionate |
unperturbed |
unresponding |
unresponsive |
unruffled |
unruffledness |
unshakable |
unshakable nerves |
unshakableness |
unsociable |
unstirring |
unsurprise |
unsurprised |
unsurprisedness |
unsusceptible |
unsympathetic |
untouchable |
untroubled |
unwavering |
unwondering |
uppish |
uppity |
variegated |
ventilate |
via media |
waning |
warm |
wean from |
well-balanced |
with chattering teeth |
withdrawn |
withhold |
without nerves |
wizard |
wonderless |
wonderlessness |
zealless
See Also | alter |
calm |
calmness |
change |
change state |
cold |
cold |
coldness |
composure |
cool |
equanimity |
ice |
low temperature |
quench |
refrigerate |
turn |
unagitated |
undisturbed |
unemotional
Cool In Webster's Dictionary
\Cool\, a. [Compar. {Cooler}; superl. {Coolest}.] [AS.
c[=o]l; akin to D. koel, G. k["u]hl, OHG. chouli, Dan.
k["o]lig, 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. --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. --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.
--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. --Fielding.
Leaving a cool thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket.
--Dickens.
Syn: Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed;
repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.
\Cool\, n.
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.
\Cool\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cooled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Cooling}.]
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. --Shak.
{To cool the heels}, to dance attendance; to wait, as for
admission to a patron's house. [Colloq.] --Dryden.
\Cool\, v. i.
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. --Shak.
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. --Congreve.
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