cool
Speech parts
1. cool - Noun
2. cool - Adjective
3. cool - Verb
5. cool - Adjective Satellite
6. Cool - Proper noun
Meaning
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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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
Rather be dead than cool.
He who has been angry becomes cool again.
Drink coffee while it's hot enough to make you swear but let the chocolate cool.
Don't spoil a cool place under the hospitable tree.