cool

cool

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English

Alternative forms

  • c00l, coo, k00l, kewl, kool, qewl, qool (slang)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ko͞ol, IPA(key): /kuːl/
  • (US) IPA(key): /kul/
  • (Scotland) IPA(key): /kʉl/
  • (Local Dublin) IPA(key): /kʲɪul/, /kʲuːl/
    • (working-class) IPA(key): /kʲeul/
  • Rhymes: -uːl

Etymology 1

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

Cognate with Saterland Frisian köil (“cool”), West Frisian koel (“cool”), Dutch koel (“cool”), Limburgish kool (“cool”), German Low German köhl (“cool”), German kühl (“cool”). Related to cold.

Adjective

cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolest)

  2. Of a mildly low temperature.
    Synonym: chilly
    Antonyms: lukewarm, tepid, warm
  3. Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
  4. Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
    Antonym: warm
  6. (of a person) Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
    Synonyms: distant, phlegmatic, standoffish, unemotional
    Antonym: passionate
  8. Unenthusiastic; lukewarm; skeptical.
    Synonyms: chilly, lukewarm, tepid
    Antonym: warm
  10. Calmly audacious.
  12. Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
    • 1900, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Transmigration
      You remember Bulger, don't you? You lost a cool hundred to him one night here over the cards, eh?
    • 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.
  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
    • 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
  18. (informal) Very interesting or exciting.
    Synonyms: awesome, neat
  19. (informal) Followed by with, able to tolerate.
    Synonyms: easy, fine, not bothered, not fussed
    Antonyms: bothered, upset
  20. (informal) Of a pair of people, Having good relations.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations

Noun

cool (uncountable)

  1. A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
  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
  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.
  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.
  6. (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To relax, hang out.
    Synonym: bool (slang)
Derived terms
Translations

References

  • “cool v.2”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
  • “cool v.3”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “cool”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
  • “cool”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • Colo, Colo., colo, colo-, loco

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cool. Doublet of koel.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kul/
  • Hyphenation: cool
  • Rhymes: -ul
  • Homophone: koel

Adjective

cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolst)

  1. cool, fashionable

Declension

Derived terms

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English cool.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kul/
  • Rhymes: -ul
  • Homophones: coule, coules, coulent

Adjective

cool (invariable)

  1. cool (only its informal senses, mainly fashionable)

Interjection

cool

  1. cool! great!

Derived terms

  • cool, Raoul

Anagrams

  • looc

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English cool. Doublet of kühl.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuːl/

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.
  2. (colloquial) cool, calm, easy-going
    Synonyms: lässig, ruhig

Declension

Further reading

  • “cool” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “cool” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “cool” in Duden online
  • “cool” in OpenThesaurus.de

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cool.

Pronunciation

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

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, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • cool in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

Adverb

cool

  1. cool

Noun

cool n (uncountable)

  1. cool

Declension

Spanish

Alternative forms

  • cul

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cool.

Pronunciation

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

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
  • Diccionario de anglicismos del español estadounidense

Anagrams

  • loco

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English cool. Attested since 1951.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuːl/
  • Rhymes: -uːl

Adjective

cool (comparative coolare, superlative coolast)

  1. (colloquial) cool (calm, collected)
  2. (colloquial) cool (appealing in a calm, controlled way)

Declension

See also

  • häftig
  • tuff

References

  • cool in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • cool in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Turkish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cool

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

cool

  1. cool

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