cool
/kuːl/ · adj
Meaning
- Of a mildly low temperature.
- Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
- Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
- Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
- Unenthusiastic; lukewarm; skeptical.
- Calmly audacious.
- Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
- Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by others.
- Fashionable; trendy; hip.
- All right; acceptable; good.
- Very interesting or exciting.
- Followed by with: able to tolerate.
- A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
- A calm temperament.
- The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.
- To lose heat, to get colder.
- To make cooler, less warm.
- To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
- To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
- To kill, murder.
- To relax, hang out.
- Initialism of CLIPS Object-Oriented Language.
- A surname.
- Ellipsis of McCool; a surname from Irish, anglicized form of McCool.
Etymology / origin
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 *kalaną (“to be cold, to freeze”), Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold, to freeze”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian kuul, kölj (“cold”), Saterland Frisian köil (“cool”), West Frisian koel (“cool”), Cimbrian khuul (“chilly, cool”), Dutch koel (“cool”), German kühl (“cool”), Low German köhl (“cool”), Luxembourgish kill (“cool”), Vilamovian kił (“cool”); also Latin gelū, gelum, gelus (“frost; chill, cold”), Belarusian хо́лад (xólad, “cold”), Bulgarian хлад (hlad, “chill, coolness”), Czech chlad (“cold”), Macedonian лад (lad, “shade; coolness”), Polish chłód (“cold”), Russian and Ukrainian хо́лод (xólod, “cold”), Serbo-Croatian хла̑д, hlȃd (“shade”), Sanskrit जड (jaḍa, “cold; stiff”), जल (jala, “water”). Related to cold.
- जड(Sanskrit)→
- хла̑д(sh)→
- хо́лод(ru,uk)→
- chłód(Polish)→
- лад(Macedonian)→
- chlad(Czech)→
- хлад(Bulgarian)→
- хо́лад(be)→
- gelū(la)→
- kił(Vilamovian)→
- kill(Luxembourgish)→
- köhl(Low German)→
- kühl(German)→
- koel(Dutch)→
- khuul(Cimbrian)→
- koel(West Frisian)→
- köil(Saterland Frisian)→
- kuul(North Frisian)→
- *gel-(ine-pro)→
- *kōluz(gem-pro)→
- *kōl(ī)(gmw-pro)→
- cōl(ang)→
- cool(enm)→
- *gel-(ine-pro)→
- cool (English)
- Relations: root, inh, inh, inh, inh, der, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog
Related words
Descendant words
- chuele(Alemannic German) (cog)
- khuul(Cimbrian) (cog)
- khuulan(Cimbrian) (cog)
- cool(Dutch) (bor)
- كول(Egyptian Arabic) (bor)
- kuudere(English) (der)
- kulur(Faroese) (der)
- cool(French) (bor)
- cool(German) (bor)
- kühl(German) (cog)
- kühlen(German) (cog)
- κουλάρω(Greek) (uder)
- kúl(Hungarian) (der)
- kúl(Icelandic) (bor)
- COOL(Japanese) (bor)
- クーデレ(Japanese) (der)
- クール(Japanese) (bor)
- 꿀잼(Korean) (cog)
- kill(Luxembourgish) (cog)
- kuul(North Frisian) (cog)
- kölj(North Frisian) (cog)
- kul(Norwegian Bokmål) (der)
- kul(Norwegian Nynorsk) (der)
- kiehl(Pennsylvania German) (cog)
- kul(Serbo-Croatian) (bor)
- кул(Serbo-Croatian) (bor)
- cool(Swedish) (bor)
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