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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English cool, from Old English cōl (“cool, cold, tranquil, calm”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōl(ī), from Proto-Germanic *kōluz (“cool”), from *kalaną (“to be cold, to freeze”), Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold, to freeze”).

Cognates

Cognate with North Frisian kool, koul, kuul, kölj, kööl (“cold”), Saterland Frisian köil (“cool”), West Frisian koel (“cool”), Cimbrian khuul (“chilly, cool”), Dutch koel (“cool”), German kühl (“cool”), Low German köhl (“cool”), Luxembourgish kill (“cool”), Vilamovian kił (“cool”); also Latin gelū, gelum, gelus (“frost; chill, cold”), Belarusian хо́лад (xólad, “cold”), Bulgarian хлад (hlad, “chill, coolness”), Czech chlad (“cold”), Macedonian лад (lad, “shade; coolness”), Polish chłód (“cold”), Russian and Ukrainian хо́лод (xólod, “cold”), Serbo-Croatian хла̑д, hlȃd (“shade”), Sanskrit जड (jaḍa, “cold; stiff”), जल (jala, “water”). Related to cold.

Adjective

cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolest)

BERJAYA
cool colors
  2. Of a mildly low temperature.
    Synonym: chilly
    Antonyms: lukewarm, tepid, warm
    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.
    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
      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: […] .
    • 2023 November 29, Ashley Strickland, “Astronomers discover nearby six-planet solar system with ‘pristine configuration’”, in CNN‎[1]:
      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.
  3. Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
    Linen has made cool and breathable clothing for millennia.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      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.
  4. Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
    Antonym: warm
    If you have a reddish complexion, you should mainly wear cool colors.
  6. (of a person) Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
    Synonyms: distant, phlegmatic, standoffish, unemotional
    Antonym: passionate
    Be cool. There's no need to panic.
  8. Unenthusiastic; lukewarm; skeptical.
    Synonyms: chilly, lukewarm, tepid
    Antonym: warm
    His proposals had a cool reception.
  10. (obsolete) Calmly audacious.
  12. Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
  15. (informal, originally African-American Vernacular) Fashionable; trendy; hip.
    Synonyms: à la mode, fashionable, in fashion, modish, stylish, happening, hip, in, trendy
    Antonyms: démodé, old hat, out, out of fashion
    • 1953, Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan Hunter, John Dighton, Roman Holiday, spoken by Mario Delani (Paolo Carlini):
      You be nice without long hair. Now it's cool, hmm?
    • 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.
  17. (informal) All right; acceptable; good.
    Synonyms: acceptable, all right, OK
    Antonyms: (UK) not cricket, not on, unacceptable
    Is it cool if I sleep here tonight?
    • 1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett, Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:
      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.
  18. (informal) Very interesting or exciting.
    Synonyms: awesome, neat
    I think astronomy is really cool.
  19. (informal) Followed by with: able to tolerate.
    Synonyms: easy, fine, not bothered, not fussed
    Antonyms: bothered, upset
    I'm completely cool with my girlfriend leaving me.
  20. (informal) Of a pair of people, Having good relations.
    We're cool, right?
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Chinese: 酷 (kù)
  • → Danish: cool
  • → Dutch: cool
  • → Egyptian Arabic: كول (kūl)
  • → French: cool
  • → German: cool
  • → Hebrew: קוּל (kul)
  • → Japanese: クール (kūru)
    ⇒ Japanese: クーデレ (kūdere)
    → English: kuudere
  • → Polish: cool
  • → Romanian: cool
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
  • → Spanish: cool
  • → Swedish: cool
  • → Turkish: cool
Translations
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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
  2. A calm temperament.
    Synonyms: calmness, composure
  3. The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English colen, from Old English cōlian (“to cool, grow cold, be cold”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōlēn (“to become cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to freeze”).

Cognate with Dutch koelen (“to cool”), German kühlen (“to cool”), Swedish kyla (“to cool, refrigerate”). Also partially from Middle English kelen, from Old English cēlan (“to cool, be cold, become cold”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōlijan, from Proto-Germanic *kōlijaną (“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. (intransitive, literally) To lose heat, to get colder.
    Synonym: cool down
    Antonyms: warm, warm up, heat, heat up
    Hyponym: freeze
    I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue.
  2. (transitive, literally) To make cooler, less warm.
    Synonyms: chill, cool down, refrigerate; deheat (rare)
    Antonyms: warm, warm up, heat, heat up
    Hyponym: freeze
  3. (intransitive, figuratively) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
    Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.
  4. (transitive, figuratively) To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
  5. (transitive, slang, dated) To kill, murder.
    • 1965, "Sex Jungle" (narrated in Perversion for Profit)
      Maybe he would die. That would mean I had murdered him. I smiled, trying the idea on for size. One of the things that always had cheesed me a little was that I had no kills to my credit. I'd been in plenty of rumbles, but somehow, I'd never cooled anyone. Well maybe now I had my first one. I couldn't feel very proud of skulling an old man, but at least I could say that I'd scored. That was a big kick.
    • 1967, Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 31:
      Big-mouth got up as fast as he could, and I was thinking how much heart he had. But I ran toward him like my life depended on it; I wanted to cool him.
  6. (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To relax, hang out.
    Synonym: bool (slang)
    • 1986, “6 in the Mornin'”‎[5]performed by Ice-T:
      Seen my homeboys coolin' way way out / Told 'em bout my mornin' cold bugged' em out
    • 2000, Paul Beatty, Tuff: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 223:
      "What up, kid?" ¶ "Coolin'."
    • 1997, Courttia Newland, The Scholar: A West Side Story, London: Abacus, →ISBN, page 207:
      'Asbestos? Raa, dat's a dangerous t'ing boy, dat ain't good. You know what though, you guys should min' yourselves walkin' street star, dere's bere nutters about. I know you're in a crew but boy can't you jus' cool at someone's house?'
Derived terms
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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cool. Doublet of koel.

Pronunciation

Adjective

cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolst)

  1. cool, fashionable

Declension

Declension of cool
uninflected cool
inflected coole
comparative cooler
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial cool cooler het coolst
het coolste
indefinite m./f. sing. coole coolere coolste
n. sing. cool cooler coolste
plural coole coolere coolste
definite coole coolere coolste
partitive cools coolers —

Derived terms

French

Etymology

    Borrowed from English cool.

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    cool (invariable)

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

    Interjection

    cool

    1. cool! great!

    Derived terms

    Anagrams

    German

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English cool. Doublet of kühl.

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    cool (strong nominative masculine singular cooler, comparative cooler, superlative am coolsten)

    1. (colloquial) cool (in its informal senses)
      Synonyms: brilliant, genial, geil
      Die Musik war echt cool. ― The music was very cool.
      • 1982, “Der Kommissar”, in Einzelhaft, performed by Falco:
        Wir treffen Jill und Joe und dessen Bruder Hip / Und auch den Rest der coolen Gang
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    2. (colloquial) cool, calm, easy-going
      Synonyms: lässig, ruhig
      Als Trainer muss mann ziemlich cool sein.
      As a trainer you have to be quite easy-going.

    Declension

    Positive forms of cool
    number & gender singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter
    predicative er ist cool sie ist cool es ist cool sie sind cool
    strong declension
    (without article)     		nominative cooler coole cooles coole
    genitive coolen cooler coolen cooler
    dative coolem cooler coolem coolen
    accusative coolen coole cooles coole
    weak declension
    (with definite article)     		nominative der coole die coole das coole die coolen
    genitive des coolen der coolen des coolen der coolen
    dative dem coolen der coolen dem coolen den coolen
    accusative den coolen die coole das coole die coolen
    mixed declension
    (with indefinite article)     		nominative ein cooler eine coole ein cooles (keine) coolen
    genitive eines coolen einer coolen eines coolen (keiner) coolen
    dative einem coolen einer coolen einem coolen (keinen) coolen
    accusative einen coolen eine coole ein cooles (keine) coolen
    Comparative forms of cool
    number & gender singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter
    predicative er ist cooler sie ist cooler es ist cooler sie sind cooler
    strong declension
    (without article)     		nominative coolerer coolere cooleres coolere
    genitive cooleren coolerer cooleren coolerer
    dative coolerem coolerer coolerem cooleren
    accusative cooleren coolere cooleres coolere
    weak declension
    (with definite article)     		nominative der coolere die coolere das coolere die cooleren
    genitive des cooleren der cooleren des cooleren der cooleren
    dative dem cooleren der cooleren dem cooleren den cooleren
    accusative den cooleren die coolere das coolere die cooleren
    mixed declension
    (with indefinite article)     		nominative ein coolerer eine coolere ein cooleres (keine) cooleren
    genitive eines cooleren einer cooleren eines cooleren (keiner) cooleren
    dative einem cooleren einer cooleren einem cooleren (keinen) cooleren
    accusative einen cooleren eine coolere ein cooleres (keine) cooleren
    Superlative forms of cool
    number & gender singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter
    predicative er ist am coolsten sie ist am coolsten es ist am coolsten sie sind am coolsten
    strong declension
    (without article)     		nominative coolster coolste coolstes coolste
    genitive coolsten coolster coolsten coolster
    dative coolstem coolster coolstem coolsten
    accusative coolsten coolste coolstes coolste
    weak declension
    (with definite article)     		nominative der coolste die coolste das coolste die coolsten
    genitive des coolsten der coolsten des coolsten der coolsten
    dative dem coolsten der coolsten dem coolsten den coolsten
    accusative den coolsten die coolste das coolste die coolsten
    mixed declension
    (with indefinite article)     		nominative ein coolster eine coolste ein coolstes (keine) coolsten
    genitive eines coolsten einer coolsten eines coolsten (keiner) coolsten
    dative einem coolsten einer coolsten einem coolsten (keinen) coolsten
    accusative einen coolsten eine coolste ein coolstes (keine) coolsten

    Further reading

    • “cool”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[6] (in German)
    • “cool” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
    • “cool” in Duden online
    • “cool” in OpenThesaurus.de

    Polish

    Etymology

      Unadapted borrowing from English cool.

      Pronunciation

      Adjective

      cool (not comparable, no derived adverb)

      1. (slang) cool (in its informal senses)
        Synonyms: świetny, wspaniały, znakomity

      Further reading

      • “cool”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[7] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
      • “cool”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[8] (in Polish)

      Portuguese

      Pronunciation

      • Rhymes: -u

      Noun

      cool m (plural cools)

      1. filter-avoidance spelling of cu (“anus, butthole”)
        Synonym: 🆒

      Romanian

      Etymology

      Unadapted borrowing from English cool.

      Adjective

      cool m or f or n (indeclinable)

      1. cool

      Declension

      Declension of cool (invariable)
      singular plural
      masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
      nominative-
      accusative       		indefinite cool cool cool cool
      definite — — — —
      genitive-
      dative       		indefinite cool cool cool cool
      definite — — — —

      Adverb

      cool

      1. cool

      Noun

      cool n (uncountable)

      1. cool

      Declension

      singular only indefinite definite
      nominative-accusative cool coolul
      genitive-dative cool coolului
      vocative coolule

      Spanish

      Alternative forms

      Etymology

      Unadapted borrowing from English cool.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈkul/ [ˈkul]
      • Rhymes: -ul
      • Syllabification: cool

      Adjective

      cool m or f (masculine and feminine plural cools or cool)

      1. cool (in its informal sense)

      Usage notes

      • According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

      Further reading

      • “cool”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
      • Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “cool”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA

      Anagrams

      Swedish

      Etymology

      Borrowed from English cool. Attested since 1951.

      Pronunciation

      Adjective

      cool (comparative coolare, superlative coolast)

      1. (colloquial) cool (calm, collected)
        Träskmonstret röt åt honom, men han var helt cool.
        The swamp monster roared at him, but he was completely cool.
      2. (colloquial) cool (appealing in a calm, controlled way)
        en cool snubbe med coola solglasögon
        a cool guy with cool sunglasses
        Han tyckte rymden var cool.
        He thought space was cool.

      Declension

      Inflection of cool
      Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
      common singular cool coolare coolast
      neuter singular coolt coolare coolast
      plural coola coolare coolast
      masculine plural2 coole coolare coolast
      Definite positive comparative superlative
      masculine singular3 coole coolare coolaste
      all coola coolare coolaste

      1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
      2 Dated or archaic.
      3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

      See also

      References

      Turkish

      Etymology

      Unadapted borrowing from English cool

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈkuːɫ/
      • Hyphenation: kul

      Adjective

      cool

      1. cool

      Yola

      Etymology

      From Middle English cole.

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      cool

      1. A very light wind.

      References

      • Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990), “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, in lrish University Review‎[9], volume 20, number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page 156
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