Cool

/kuːl/ · adjective

Meaning

Of a mildly low temperature..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of a mildly low temperature.
2. Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
3. Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
4. (of a person) Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
5. Unenthusiastic; lukewarm; skeptical.
6. (obsolete) Calmly audacious.
7. Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
8. (informal, of a person) Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by others.

Example Sentences

I like cool weather the most 'cause it's not too hot to wear a jacket but I won't be too cold in my shorts.

The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].

Many exoplanets have been found orbiting dwarf stars that are much cooler and smaller than our sun, such as the famed TRAPPIST-1 system and its seven planets, announced in 2017.

Linen has made cool and breathable clothing for millennia.

Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.

If you have a reddish complexion, you should mainly wear cool colors.

Be cool. There's no need to panic.

His proposals had a cool reception.

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Antonyms for cool

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Word Forms

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

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