cool

About 21.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of a mildly low temperature.

   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.

2. adjective Allowing or suggesting heat relief.

   Linen has made cool and breathable clothing for millennia.

3. adjective Of a color, in the range of violet to green.

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

4. adjective Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.

   Be cool. There's no need to panic.

5. adjective Unenthusiastic; lukewarm; skeptical.

   His proposals had a cool reception.

6. adjective Calmly audacious.
7. adjective Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
8. adjective Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by others.

Similar words

cool off cool down chill chilly cold water-cooled swell air-conditioned smashing cracking

Often followed by

and the to in water air down off of

Word family

cooled cooler coolest cooling coolish coolly coolness coolnesses cools cooly