Definition of cool

"cool" in the noun sense

1. cool

the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature

"the cool of early morning"

2. aplomb, assuredness, cool, poise, sang-froid

great coolness and composure under strain

"keep your cool"

"cool" in the verb sense

1. cool, chill, cool down

make cool or cooler

"Chill the food"

2. cool, chill, cool down

loose heat

"The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"

3. cool, cool off, cool down

lose intensity

"His enthusiasm cooled considerably"

"cool" in the adjective sense

1. 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"

2. cool, 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"

3. cool

inducing the impression of coolness used especially of greens and blues and violets when referring to color

"cool greens and blues and violets"

"the cool sound of rushing water"

4. cool

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"

5. all right, fine, o.k., ok, okay, hunky-dory, cool

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"

6. cool

used of a quantity or amount (especially of money) for emphasis

"a cool million bucks"

7. cool

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"

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Quotations for cool

Cool words scald not the tongue. [ Proverb ]

Keep cool. Anger is not argument. [ Daniel Webster ]

Good words cool more than cold water. [ Proverb ]

A cool mouth and warm feet live long. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Spare your breath to cool your broth. [ Proverb ]

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky.
The dew shall weep thy fall tonight;
For thou must die. [ Herbert ]

Spare your breath to cool your porridge. [ Cervantes ]

But with the morning cool repentance came. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Let me play the fool
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come;
And let my liver rather heat with wine,
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. [ William Shakespeare ]

'Tis beautiful, when first the dewy light
Breaks on the earth! while yet the scented air
Is breathing the cool freshness of the night
And the bright clouds a tint of crimson wear. [ Elizabeth M. Chandler ]

Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience. [ William Shakespeare ]

Keep the bowels open, the head cool, and the feet warm, and a fig for the doctors. [ Proverb ]

I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love. [ Willis ]

He that would relish success to purpose should keep his passion cool and his expectation low. [ Collier ]

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware. [ Lavater ]

Great warmth at first is the certain ruin of every great achievement. Doth not water, although ever so cool, moisten the earth? [ Hitopadesa ]

Urge them while their souls are capable of this ambition, lest zeal, now melted by the windy breath of soft petitions, pity and remorse, cool and congeal again to what it was. [ William Shakespeare ]

Love, when founded in the heart, will show itself in a thousand unpremeditated sallies of fondness; but every cool deliberate exhibition of the passion only argues little understanding or great insincerity. [ Goldsmith ]

cool in Scrabble®

The word cool is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters cool:

COOL
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cool in Words With Friends™

The word cool is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters cool:

COOL
(48)
 

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The 82 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In cool

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Words within the letters of cool

3 letter words in cool (2 words)

4 letter words in cool (Anagrams) (2 words)

cool + 1 blank (4 words)

Word Growth involving cool

Shorter words in cool

coo

Longer words containing cool

aircool aircooled

coolabah coolabahs

coolant coolants

cooldown cooldowns

cooled aircooled

cooled noncooled

cooled overcooled

cooled precooled

cooled supercooled

cooled ultracooled

cooled uncooled

cooled undercooled

cooled watercooled

cooler coolers precoolers

cooler coolers watercoolers

cooler precooler precoolers

cooler uncooler

cooler watercooler watercoolers

coolest uncoolest

coolheaded coolheadedly

coolheaded coolheadedness

coolhouse coolhouses

coolibah coolibahs

cooling overcooling

cooling precooling

cooling supercooling

cooling undercooling

cooling watercooling

coolly

coolness

cools overcools

cools precools

cools supercools

cools undercools

icecool

overcool overcooled

overcool overcooling

overcool overcools

recool precool precooled

recool precool precooler precoolers

recool precool precooling

recool precool precools

supercool supercooled

supercool supercooling

supercool supercools

ultracool ultracooled

uncool uncoolable

uncool uncooled

uncool uncooler

uncool uncoolest

undercool undercooled

undercool undercooling

undercool undercools