COOL
adjective
Synonyms
Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed; repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.
Definitions
- 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.
Other Definitions
This word also has 2 other definitions:
COOL
(noun)
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 ev...
COOL
(verb)
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 ...
Added: October 09, 2025
Updated: October 09, 2025