cool

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Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Old English cōl (“cool, cold, tranquil, calm”), from Proto-Germanic *kōlaz, *kōlijaz (“cool”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelǝ- (“cold”). Cognate with Dutch koel (“cool”), German kühl (“cool”). Related to cold.

Adjective

cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolest)

  1. Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
  2. Allowing or suggesting heat relief
    a cool grey colour
  3. Of a person, not showing emotion, calm and in self-control.
  4. Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.
    His proposals had a cool reception.
  5. Calmly audacious.
    In control as always, he came up with a cool plan.
    • 1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:
      My father was talking to the World's Fair Commission yesterday, and they estimate it's going to cost a cool fifty million.
  6. (informal) Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.
  7. (informal) In fashion, part of or fitting the in-crowd, originally hipster slang.
    • 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.
  8. (informal) Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.
    Is it cool if I sleep here tonight?
  9. (informal) A dismissal of a comment perceived as boring or pointless.
    Ok, that's cool man, but I don't care.
    Cool story bro.
  10. (informal) Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting.
    I'm completely cool about my girlfriend leaving me.
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Derived terms
Terms derived from cool (adjective)
Quotations
  • ^  The earliest use of the word in this way seems to be in Wilkie Collins' "The Moonstone" 1868:
    "She has been a guest of yours at this house," I answered. "May I venture to suggest — if nothing was said about me beforehand — that I might see her here?"
    "Cool!" said Mr. Bruff. With that one word of comment on the reply that I had made to him, he took another turn up and down the room.
    "In plain English," he said, "my house is to be turned into a trap to catch Rachel ...
  • In 1602, Shakespeare wrote that Queen Gertrude told Hamlet:
    "O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, Sprinkle cool patience."
Translations
having a slightly low temperature
allowing or suggesting heat relief
not showing emotion, calm
unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical
calmly audacious
colloquial: of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave in any situation
colloquial: being considered as "popular" by others
colloquial: in fashion
colloquial: all right, acceptable
colloquial: not upset
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Noun

cool (uncountable)

  1. A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
    in the cool of the morning

Etymology 2

From Middle English colen, from Old English cōlian (“to cool, grow cold, be cold”), from Proto-Germanic *kōlēnan (“to become cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to freeze”). Cognate with Dutch koelen (“to cool”), German kühlen (“to cool”), Swedish, häftig (“cool”)kyla (“to cool, refrigerate”). Also partially from Middle English kelen, from Old English cēlan (“to cool, be cold, become cold”), from Proto-Germanic *kōlijanan (“to cool”), altered to resemble the adjective cool. See keel.

Verb

cool (third-person singular simple present cools, present participle cooling, simple past and past participle cooled)

  1. (literally) (intransitive) To lose heat, to get colder.
    I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn by tongue.
  2. (transitive) To make cooler, less warm
  3. (figuratively) (intransitive) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable.
    Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.
  4. (transitive) To make less intense, e.g. less amicable.
Derived terms
Terms derived from cool (verb)
Translations
cool down — see cool down
to make colder (literally)
to become less intense, e.g. less amicable
to make less intense, e.g. less amicable

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Dutch

Etymology

Germanic, from English cool, a cognate.

Pronunciation

Adjective

cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolst)

  1. cool, fashionable

Declension

Declension of cool
positive comparative superlative
attributive predicative/adverbial
predicative/adverbial cool cooler
neuter
singular		 indefinite cool cooler
definite coole coolere coolste coolst, coolste
common singular coole coolere coolste coolste
plural coole coolere coolste coolste
partitive cools coolers

French

Etymology

From English cool.

Pronunciation

Adjective

cool m and f

  1. cool (only its informal senses, mainly fashionable)
    Les jeunes sont cool.
    Young people are cool.
    Les jeunes boivent de l'alcool pour être cool.
    Young people drink alcohol to be cool.

Interjection

cool

  1. cool! great!

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