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Cool

adjective
(compar. cooler; superl. coolest)
1.
Neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat.  "A cool room" , "Cool summer dresses" , "Cool drinks" , "A cool breeze"
2.
Marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional.  Synonyms: coolheaded, nerveless.  "Keep cool" , "Stayed coolheaded in the crisis" , "The most nerveless winner in the history of the tournament"
3.
(color) inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets.
4.
Psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike.  "A cool reception" , "Cool to the idea of higher taxes"
5.
(used of a number or sum) without exaggeration or qualification.
6.
Fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept.  "That's cool" , "Mary's dress is really cool" , "It's not cool to arrive at a party too early"
verb
(past & past part. cooled; pres. part. cooling)
1.
Make cool or cooler.  Synonyms: chill, cool down.
2.
Loose heat.  Synonyms: chill, cool down.
3.
Lose intensity.  Synonyms: cool down, cool off.
noun
1.
The quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature.
2.
Great coolness and composure under strain.  Synonyms: aplomb, assuredness, poise, sang-froid.



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"Cool" Quotes from Famous Books



... the watery waste. What solemn lives they must lead! But a more solemn and more solitary scene occurred a little later. All the afternoon we had been sailing under splendid icy peaks. We came in out of the hot sun, and were glad of the cool, snow-chilled air that visited us ...
— Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska • Charles Warren Stoddard

... solemn sentence is passed on the author for his disregard of the advice of parents, tutors, friends; "but," adds the reviewer, "in the paltry volume before us we think we observe some proof that the still small voice of conscience will be heard in the cool of the day. Even now the gay, the gallant, the accomplished bear-leader is not happy," etc. Hence the castigation of "the ...
— Byron's Poetical Works, Vol. 1 • Byron

... to the magistrates in their relentless work. On the contrary, after six victims had been executed, August 4, 1692, in A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World, Mather wrote this in deliberate, cool afterthought: ...
— The Witchcraft Delusion In Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) • John M. Taylor

... lie. Sharp points rise above the irregular profile of the line of roofs. Some are church spires, and some are masts,—mixed at the rate of about one church and a half to a schooner. I smell the clear earthy smell of the pure gray sand, and the fresh, cool smell of the pure water. Tiny bird-tracks lie along the edge of the water, perhaps to delight the soul of some millennial ichnologist. A faint aromatic perfume rises from the stems of the willow-bushes, abraded by the ice of the winter floods. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 • Various

... said, precocious. He had the cool eye and steady hand of an experienced gamester, and in a few days he won, of course, all Fred's little earnings. But then he was quite liberal and free with his money. He added to their prison fare such various improvements as his abundance of money enabled him to buy. He had brought with ...
— The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings • Harriet Beecher Stowe


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