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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



... this diverted the enemy's attention from the fire of the American army. A furious attack followed, but was met by a cool resistance which was the result of the army's ...
— Ten American Girls From History • Kate Dickinson Sweetser
... is feminine, "Shamul" liquor hung in the wind to cool, a favourite Arab practice often noticed by ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... the hot murk of the night came a little puff of cool wind, and borne on it a faint strain of music. Anderson listened. ...
— The Debtor - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... Corte-Real sailed from Lisbon in the summer of 1500 with a single ship. He touched at the Azores. It is possible that a second vessel joined him there, but this is not clear. From the Azores his path lay north and west, till presently he reached a land described as a 'cool region with great woods.' Corte-Real called it from its verdure 'the Green Land,' but the similarity of name with the place that we call Greenland is only an accident. In reality the Portuguese captain was on the coast of Newfoundland. ...
— The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada • Stephen Leacock
... American government, however, were little suited to meet the expense of a war; and the friends of peace, though outvoted in the legislative assemblies, yet felt confident that the prospect of loans and taxes would cool the military ardour of a people unaccustomed to ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan


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