Word Meanings - COOL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

D. koel, G. kühl, OHG. chouli, Dan. kölig, Sw. kylig, also to AS. 1. Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness. Fanned with cool winds. Milton. 2. Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty;

Additional info about word: COOL

D. koel, G. kühl, OHG. chouli, Dan. kölig, Sw. kylig, also to AS. 1. Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness. Fanned with cool winds. Milton. 2. Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater. For a patriot, too cool. Goldsmith. 3. Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress. 4. Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner. 5. Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior. Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable. Hawthorne. 6. Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount. He had lost a cool hundred. Fielding. Leaving a cool thousand to Mr.Matthew Pocket. Dickens. Syn. -- Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed; repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COOL)

• Collected
• Calm
• composed
• cool
• attentive
• self-possessed
• firm
• placid
• serene
• unmoved
• Fresh
• New
• young
• vigorous
• recent
• renewed
• unimpaired
• untarnished
• unfaded
• blooming
• ruddy
• novel
• untried
• modern
• unskilled
• Refresh
• Cool
• refrigerate
• vigorate
• revive
• reanimate
• renovate
• recreate
• renew
• restore
• cheer
• freshen
• brace
• Sober
• Temperate
• unintoxicated
• dispassionate
• reasonable
• culm
• sound
• unexcited
• serious
• grave
• sedate
• steady
• abstemious
• moderate
• Moderate
• sober
• calm
• mild
• genial

Related words: (words related to COOL)

• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• COMPOSITOUS
  Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• MODERN
  1. Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. Bacon. 2. New and common;
• GENIALLY
  1. By genius or nature; naturally. Some men are genially disposed to some opinions. Glanvill. 2. Gayly; cheerfully. Johnson.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• REVIVEMENT
  Revival.
• RENOVATE
  To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew. All nature feels the reniovating force Of winter. Thomson. (more info) renovare;pref. re- re- + novare to make new, fr. novus new. See New,
• NOVELRY
  Novelty; new things. Chaucer.
• SEDATE
  Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper. Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
• FRESHNESS
  The state of being fresh. The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men. Hayward. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.
• FRESHET
  1. A stream of fresh water. Milton. 2. A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest. Longfellow.
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• BLOOMINGNESS
  A blooming condition.
• PLACID
  Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• COUNTER BRACE
  The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.