Definition of Cool

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Definition of Cool

Cool

Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.

Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater.

Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.

Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.

Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.

Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.

A moderate state of cold; coolness; -- said of the temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.

To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water.

To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.

To become less hot; to lose heat.

To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate.

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Cool Quotations

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?
Mitch Hedberg

Rather be dead than cool.
Kurt Cobain

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Walt Whitman

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
Ted Nugent

I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.
Aaliyah

If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
Aaliyah

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
Dave Barry

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.
Mike Tyson

Cool Translations

cool in Afrikaans is koel
cool in Dutch is afkoelen
cool in French is refroidir, refroidissez, refroidis, refroidissent
cool in Italian is fresco
cool in Portuguese is fresco
cool in Swedish is kallt, sval, avkyla

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