Meaning of cool | Babel Free

Definitions

1. cold (having a low temperature)
2. Of a mildly low temperature.
3. Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
4. cold (unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling)
5. Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
6. cool (of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself)
7. Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
8. cold, coldness (a condition of low temperature)
9. Unenthusiastic; lukewarm; skeptical.
10. Calmly audacious.
11. Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
12. Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by others.
    informal
13. Fashionable; trendy; hip.
    informal
14. All right; acceptable; good.
    informal
15. Very interesting or exciting.
    informal
16. Followed by with: able to tolerate.
    informal
17. Of a pair of people, Having good relations.
    informal

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].”

“Many exoplanets have been found orbiting dwarf stars that are much cooler and smaller than our sun, such as the famed TRAPPIST-1 system and its seven planets, announced in 2017.”

“Linen has made cool and breathable clothing for millennia.”

“Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.”

“If you have a reddish complexion, you should mainly wear cool colors.”

“Be cool. There's no need to panic.”

“His proposals had a cool reception.”

“Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.”

“"Well, that's cool," said Laurie to himself, "to have a picnic and never ask me!"”

“Who will lend me a cool hundred.”

“But she had wrote out a little coddleshell in her own hand a day or two afore the accident, leaving a cool four thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket.”

“You remember Bulger, don't you? You lost a cool hundred to him one night here over the cards, eh?”

“My father was talking to the World's Fair Commission yesterday, and they estimate it's going to cost a cool fifty million.”

“[…] while the coachman holding whip and reins in one hand, takes off his hat with the other, and resting it on his knees, pulls out his handkerchief, and wipes his forehead, partly because he has a habit of doing it, and partly because it's as well to shew the passengers how cool he is, and what an easy thing it is to drive four-in-hand, when you have had as much practice as he has.”

“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.”

“He managed to conduct interviews with the least cool global figure – his father, Prince Charles – and the most cool, Barack Obama, in a way that allowed them both to look as good as they could.”

“Is there a secret sauce that helps explain why people as different as David Bowie, Samuel L. Jackson and Charli XCX all seem so self-assured and, well, cool? A new study suggests that there are six specific traits that these people tend to have in common: Cool people are largely perceived to be extroverted, hedonistic, powerful, adventurous, open and autonomous.”

“2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.”

“Is it cool if I sleep here tonight?”

“Now everything's cool, Drac's a part of the band / And my Monster Mash is the hit of the land / For you, the living, this Mash was meant too / When you get to my door, tell them Boris sent you.”

“I think astronomy is really cool.”

“I'm completely cool with my girlfriend leaving me.”

“We're cool, right?”

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