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Cooler   /kˈulər/   Listen
adjective
Cool  adj.  (compar. cooler; superl. coolest)  
1.
Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness. "Fanned with cool winds."
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."
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."
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." "Leaving a cool thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket."
Synonyms: Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed; repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.



noun
Cooler  n.  
1.
That which cools, or abates heat or excitement. "If acid things were used only as coolers, they would not be so proper in this case."
2.
Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc.
3.
An alcoholic beverage containing liquor or wine plus a carbonated beverage, usually served with ice.
4.
Jail; usually used in the form the cooler. (slang)
5.
An air conditioner.






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"Cooler" Quotes from Famous Books



... hours in this clearing, waiting until it became cooler, to take a run in the country before dinner. Camille talked about his office, and related silly stories; then, feeling fatigued, he let himself fall backward and went to sleep with the rim of his hat over ...
— Therese Raquin • Emile Zola

... men attached to the protestant establishment would have approved it as an act fully justified by state-expediency and the law of self-defence; and though misgivings might have arisen in the minds of some on cooler reflection, when alarm had subsided and the bitterness of satiated revenge had begun to make itself felt,—these "compunctious visitings" could have led to no consequences capable of alarming her. It must have been felt as highly inequitable to reproach the queen, when all was past ...
— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin

... to cooler heads and more experienced arms," good-humouredly observed Captain Erskine. "Blessington is our senior, and his men are all old stagers. My lads, too, have had their mettle up already this morning, and there is ...
— Wacousta: A Tale of the Pontiac Conspiracy (Complete) • John Richardson

... heat of the day, after lunch, or "tiffin" as it is called, everyone sleeps a restful hour or two. Therefore visiting and dinners are carried on long into the night, when it is cooler. ...
— Fil and Filippa - Story of Child Life in the Philippines • John Stuart Thomson

... Joe on his pinto; "Ronicky" Joe, handy man at all things, and particularly guns. It showed how fast Pete Glass could work and how well he knew Alder, for Vic himself could not have selected five cooler fighters among the villagers or five finer mounts. The posse switched around the end of the street and darted up the hill like the curling lash of ...
— The Seventh Man • Max Brand


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