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ADJECTIVE cool COMPARATIVE cooler SUPERLATIVE coolest
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cool English

Meaning cool meaning

What does cool mean?
Definitions in simple English

cool

If something is cool, its temperature is between warm and cold. It's hard to keep the house nice and cool on a hot summer's day. The air was cool, so he put on his jacket. If you say something is cool you mean it is good and you like it. That's a really cool cell phone! Where did you get it? Wow, your computer looks cool!

cool

If you cool something, you decrease the temperature. Blow on the coffee to cool it off. If something cools, its temperature decreases. The soup was too hot, so he waited for it to cool a little.

cool

neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat a cool autumn day a cool room cool summer dresses cool drinks a cool breeze (= chill) make cool or cooler Chill the food (= coolheaded, nerveless) 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 loose heat The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm 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 (color) inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets cool greens and blues and violets lose intensity His enthusiasm cooled considerably the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature the cool of early morning 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 (used of a number or sum) without exaggeration or qualification a cool million bucks great coolness and composure under strain keep your cool

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Conjugation cool conjugation

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Examples cool examples

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Simple sentences

You're so cool.
Store in a cool and dry place.
That was actually pretty cool.
I don't want to be lame; I want to be cool!!
It would be so cool if I could speak ten languages!
It is cool after the rain.
Cool the burned finger in running water.
Mike always stays cool.
Keep it in a cool place.
The water in the lake is cool.
The occasion demands a cool head.
Spaniards love to stroll around in the evening cool.
The soup is not cool.
It is nice and cool here.
I don't want to be lame, I want to be cool!!
Let your food cool off a bit; don't eat it while it's hot.
I wear cool clothes and cool sunglasses.
It's cool today for July.

Movie subtitles

It's not that really cool.
Uganda? Cool.
Elder Price, you cannot lose your cool on me now!
Yes, it's cool.
I'm just gonna call Josh and see if it's cool that I come over.
Hey, are you sure you're cool to do the Calvin dinner without me?
I bet her vacuum cleaner is filled with cool pharmaceuticals.
I'm really cool and chill now.
I hope you're cool with that.
Cool, um.
Justin Timberlake wore sneakers with a suit and I thought I was cool, but I'm no JTimbo.
I. think you're cool.
Sorry, after, like, everything we've been through, you just, you just think I'm cool?
Cool, yeah.
These people are hotheads a bit quick-tempered, but they cool down as quickly.
Thanks for being so cool about it.
University would be cool.
The strange look in her eyes, her cool and amazed smile confused me.
Oh, it's nice and cool in here out of the sun.
They're just walking around the block to cool themselves off.
Now look, why don't you cool down and run along?
It's hot. You look as cool as a cucumber.
Cool them off slowly.
Let him cool his head in Dixon's mines.
We're giving you the chance to cool off some of that excessive heat of yours.
I'll cool you off.
Now, Mr. Bradley, I'm going to lock you in a nice, cool cellar for two or three days where you'll have a chance to think about life and Bronson 8.
Bring me something cool.
Yeah, everything's just so cool.
That is so cool! Hey, I just thought of something.
Hey, you're cool.
So he's scared, but also it's sort of cool, so he's also kind of excited.
Scott can respect their situation, and knows that, you know, the offer at hand of them becoming a werewolf sounds like a really cool thing, but knows that it just is not. It'll mess up their life.
That's so cool.
Hmm. I bet her vacuum cleaner is filled with cool pharmaceuticals.
I hope. I hope you're cool with that.

News and current affairs

More importantly, not only in the German team, but also in the country as a whole, a young, cool, laid-back, and carefree Germany is raising its head - a Germany that is cosmopolitan, friendly, and good-humored.
Though the SDGs will aim largely to improve daily life for the very poor, a cool-headed economic assessment suggests that there are also smart biodiversity targets that should be considered.
If consumers go on a spending binge, we expect the world's central banks to raise interest rates to cool off construction spending and free up the resources needed to prevent shortage-inducing inflation.
Most people appear to be more easily swayed by emotions - which can lead them to mass murder or warm compassion, depending on the circumstances - than by the cool calculus of rational self-interest.
Having sought to cool the property market by reining in runaway prices, Chinese leaders will be hard put to restart growth.
Let us hope that the rest of the world will keep its cool and propose a better, cheaper, and more effective solution for the future.
Just a couple of years ago, India was developing a reputation as the cool place to invest.
In this confrontation, international credibility and legitimacy will be the deciding factors, and ensuring them will require far-sighted and cool, calculated American leadership.
If cool heads prevail, Scottish independence could proceed at a relatively low cost.
Those left alive rested their heads on the cool stomachs of the newly dead for some relief from the heat.
Worried by the protests, Khrushchev tried to cool off the anti-Stalin campaign.
COPENHAGEN - When it comes to global warming, we have plenty of hot rhetoric but very little cool reason.
But, instead of hot rhetoric, what is needed now is a cool-headed assessment of the military implications of the missile launch.
Back in the early 1970's, the average American expended roughly 70 million British thermal units per year to heat, cool, and power his or her home.
But it is just possible that unilateral Israeli policy, implicitly backed by the US, will create interim conditions of peace that are sufficient for economic growth to cool Palestinian nationalism.
Using more air-conditioning to cool our houses in summer will do the same - although this is vital if we want to save lives.
As I argued in my 2007 book Cool It, the most rational response to global warming is to make alternative energy technologies so cheap that the whole world can afford them.
Japan, moreover, is likely to let today's passions over disputed islands in the East China Sea cool down, despite the anti-Japanese outbursts in Chinese cities.
Perhaps the new data will cool the heated rhetoric about undervaluation and currency manipulation, and instead generate a substantive discussion about exchange-rate flexibility and its benefits for China and the world.
For example, if evidence of future economic strength makes a government worry about economic overheating and inflation, it might try to cool domestic demand by raising taxes and lowering government spending.
The Fed has been trying to slow demand growth and cool the housing price bubble to avoid inflation, but carry trade speculators have been easing credit.
Both sides urgently need to cool off, especially in order to contain their extremist elements and prevent them from taking over the issue and setting the policy agenda.
Obama, while an inspirational orator, has shown a cool and calm demeanor in responding to both the financial crisis and the turbulence of political campaigning.
Certainly in defense and foreign policy, a cool and measured response to the extreme provocations that often come with that territory is what the world wants, and needs, from the leader of its reigning superpower.

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