Sekirov Dictionary

cool

/kuːl/

adjective 13
verb 6
noun 4
forms 6
phrases 13

adjective13

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only a little cold, but not warm
- 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.
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(informal) Very interesting or exciting.
- I think astronomy is really cool.
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(informal) All right; acceptable; good.
- Is it cool if I sleep here tonight?
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(informal) Followed by with: able to tolerate.
- I'm completely cool with my girlfriend leaving me.
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(informal) Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by others.
- Maggie the au pair, and Pam P. on the school bus and Billy G. with his Grateful Dead records were all deeply cool people. But they weren’t cool because they smoked. They smoked because they were cool. — 2000
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(informal) Fashionable; trendy; hip.
- You be nice without long hair. Now it's cool, hmm? — 1953
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Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
- Be cool. There's no need to panic.
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Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
- Linen has made cool and breathable clothing for millennia.
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(informal) Of a pair of people, Having good relations.
- We're cool, right?
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Unenthusiastic; lukewarm; skeptical.
- His proposals had a cool reception.
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Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
- If you have a reddish complexion, you should mainly wear cool colors.
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Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
- Who will lend me a cool hundred. — 1749
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(no longer used) Calmly audacious.
- Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable. — 1850

verb6

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To lose heat, to get colder.
- I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue.
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To make cooler, less warm.
- Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue. — 1611
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(figurative) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
- Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.
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(figurative) To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
- We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts. — 1603
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(slang) To relax, hang out.
- Seen my homeboys coolin' way way out / Told 'em bout my mornin' cold bugged' em out — 1986
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(slang, old-fashioned) To kill, murder.
- Big-mouth got up as fast as he could, and I was thinking how much heart he had. But I ran toward him like my life depended on it; I wanted to cool him. — 1967

noun4

A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.
A calm temperament.
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(Ireland, no longer used) A measure of butter, usually around 40lb; a container holding such an amount of butter.
- Father Conmee saluted Mr William Gallagher and perceived the odours that came from baconflitches and ample cools of butter. — 1922

forms

cooled · cooling · cooleth · cools · cooler · coolest

Phrases with cool

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