cool
neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,555 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 11,776 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat a cool autumn daya cool room
- marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional also: coolheaded, nerveless play it coolkeep cool
- inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets when referring to color cool greens and blues and violetsthe cool sound of rushing water
- psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike relations were cool and politea cool reception
- being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition also: all right, fine, o.k., ok, okay, hunky-dory an all-right moviethe passengers were shaken up but are all right
- used of a quantity or amount (especially of money) for emphasis a cool million bucks
verb
- make cool or cooler also: chill, cool down Chill the food
cool in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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How he longed to get down to it, and cool his poor baked lips!
The Water-Babies · Charles Kingsley · Chapter 1
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She wore an extremely smart travelling-dress and a wonderful dust-cloak of cool, pale, thin silk.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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Where’s Glenn o’ the gun-room, who loved Hot-Scotch— Glen, prompt and cool in a perilous watch?
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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This prevalence of snowy costumes gave the promenade deck an invitingly cool, and cheerful and picnicky aspect.
Following the Equator — Part 1 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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You have dealt with the facts with cool, painstaking fidelity, and left those naked and uncontradicted facts to speak for themselves.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1