cool
/kul/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.15 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a mildly low temperature.
adj
Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
adj
Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
adj
adj
Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
adj
Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by others.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "I like cool weather the most 'cause it's not too hot to wear a jacket but I won't be too cold in my shorts."
- "The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…]."
- "Many exoplanets have been found orbiting dwarf stars that are much cooler and smaller than our sun, such as the famed TRAPPIST-1 system and its seven planets, announced in 2017."
- "Linen has made cool and breathable clothing for millennia."
- "Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet."
- "If you have a reddish complexion, you should mainly wear cool colors."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gel-der. Proto-Indo-European *gól- Proto-Germanic *kalanąder. Proto-Germanic *kōluz Proto-West Germanic *kōl(ī) Old English cōl Middle English cool English cool From Middle English cool, from Old English cōl (“cool, cold, tranquil, calm”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōl(ī), from Proto-Germanic *kōluz (“cool”), from *kalaną (“to be cold, to freeze”), Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold, to freeze”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian kool, koul, kuul, kölj, kööl (“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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kul/
- British English: /kuːl/
Usage
Inflected Forms
cooler (comparative)
coolest (superlative)
c00l (alternative, Internet)
k00l (alternative, Internet)
kewl (alternative, Internet)
kool (alternative, Internet)
qewl (alternative, Internet)
qool (alternative, Internet)
coo (alternative, slang)
coole (alternative, obsolete)
cools (present, singular)
cooling (participle, present)