adj 1. quite cold ○ Blow on your soup to make it cool. ○ It was hot on deck but cool down below. ○ Wines should be stored in a cool cellar. ○ It gets cool in the evenings in September. 2. not enthusiastic ○ I got a cool reception when I arrived half an hour late. ○ The board was quite cool towards the proposal. 3. calm ○ The nurses remained cool and professional when dealing with all the accident victims. 4. fashionable, interesting ○ a cool party ○ It’s cool to wear white trainers. (NOTE: cooler – coolest) ■ verb to make something cool; to become cool ○ She boiled the jam for several hours and then put it aside to cool. ■ noun 1. a colder area which is pleasant ○ After the heat of the town centre, it is nice to sit in the cool of the garden. 2. the state of being calm ○ As soon as the reporters started to ask her questions she lost her cool.
cool
a. [Compar. Cooler superl. Coolest.] [AS. col; 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.
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.
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.
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.
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