COOL

adjective

Synonyms

Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed; repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.

Definitions

  1. 1. Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness. Fanned with cool winds. Milton.
  2. 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. 3. Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.
  4. 4. Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.
  5. 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. 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

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Added: October 09, 2025 Updated: October 09, 2025
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