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say it: kool
cool is an adjective, verb and noun meaning "neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat". It carries 12 recorded senses.
neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat
“a cool autumn day”
“a cool room”
“cool summer dresses”
“cool drinks”
“a cool breeze”
marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional
“play it cool”
“keep cool”
“stayed coolheaded in the crisis”
“the most nerveless winner in the history of the tournament”
psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike
“relations were cool and polite”
“a cool reception”
“cool to the idea of higher taxes”
being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
“an all-right movie”
“the passengers were shaken up but are all right”
“is everything all right?”
“everything's fine”
“things are okay”
“dinner and the movies had been fine”
“another minute I'd have been fine”
colloquialism
used of a quantity or amount (especially of money) for emphasis
“a cool million bucks”
colloquialism
fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept
“he's a cool dude”
“that's cool”
“Mary's dress is really cool”
“it's not cool to arrive at a party too early”
colloquialism
loose heat
“The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm”
great coolness and composure under strain
“keep your cool”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cool come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.