# cool
## English
### Alternative forms

* c00l, coo, k00l, kewl, kool, qewl, qool (slang)

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ko͞ol, IPA: /kuːl/
* (US) IPA: /kul/
* (Scotland) IPA: /kʉl/
* (Local Dublin) IPA: /kʲɪul/, /kʲuːl/
** (working-class) IPA: /kʲeul/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːl

### Etymology 1

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 Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian köil (“cool”), West Frisian koel (“cool”), Dutch koel (“cool”), Limburgish kool (“cool”), German Low German köhl (“cool”), German kühl (“cool”). Related to cold.

#### Adjective

cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolest)
* Of a mildly low temperature.
    Synonym: chilly
    Antonyms: lukewarm, tepid, warm
    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.
** 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC: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: […] .
* Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
    Linen has made cool and breathable clothing for millennia.
** 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC: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.
* Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
    Antonym: warm
    If you have a reddish complexion, you should mainly wear cool colors.
* (of a person) Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
    Synonyms: distant, phlegmatic, standoffish, unemotional
    Antonym: passionate
    Be cool. There's no need to panic.
* Unenthusiastic; lukewarm; skeptical.
    Antonym: warm
    His proposals had a cool reception.
* Calmly audacious.
** 1868, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 13, in Little Women: […], part first, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1869, →OCLC:"Well, that's cool," said Laurie to himself, "to have a picnic and never ask me!"
** 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “V. Hester at her Needle”, in The Scarlet Letter‎:Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.
* Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
** 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:Who will lend me a cool hundred.
** 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XVIII, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 303:But she had wrote out a little coddleshell in her own hand a day or two afore the accident, leaving a cool four thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket.
** 1900, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Transmigration
    You remember Bulger, don't you? You lost a cool hundred to him one night here over the cards, eh?
** 1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:
    My father was talking to the World's Fair Commission yesterday, and they estimate it's going to cost a cool fifty million.
* (informal, of a person) Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by others.
    Antonyms: awkward, uncool
** 2017 December 27, “The Guardian view on Prince Harry: the monarchy’s best insurance policy”, in the Guardian‎:He managed to conduct interviews with the least cool global figure – his father, Prince Charles – and the most cool, Barack Obama, in a way that allowed them both to look as good as they could.
* (informal, originally African-American Vernacular) Fashionable; trendy; hip.
    Synonyms: à la mode, fashionable, in fashion, modish, stylish, happening, hip, in, trendy
    Antonyms: démodé, old hat, out, out of fashion
** 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
    The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.
* (informal) All right; acceptable; good.
    Synonyms: acceptable, all right, OK
    Antonyms: (UK) not cricket, not on, unacceptable
    Is it cool if I sleep here tonight?
** 1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett, Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:Now everything's cool, Drac's a part of the band / And my Monster Mash is the hit of the land / For you, the living, this Mash was meant too / When you get to my door, tell them Boris sent you.
* (informal) Very interesting or exciting.
    Synonyms: awesome, neat
    I think astronomy is really cool.
* (informal) Followed by with, able to tolerate.
    Synonyms: easy, fine, not bothered, not fussed
    Antonyms: bothered, upset
    I'm completely cool with my girlfriend leaving me.
* (informal) Of a pair of people, Having good relations.
    We're cool, right?

##### Derived terms

* be cool
* before it was cool
* blow one's cool
* coola boola
* coolamundo
* cool and the gang
* cool arrow
* cool art
* cool as a cucumber
* cool bag
* cool beans
* cool box
* coolbox
* cool burn
* cool cat
* cool center
* cool chain
* cool change
* coolchest
* cooldrink
* coolen
* cool flame
* cool gray
* cool grey
* cool hand
* cool head
* coolheaded
* cool-headed
* cool-headedness
* cool heads must prevail
* cool heads prevail
* cool heads will prevail
* coolhouse
* coolhunter
* cool hunter
* coolhunting
* coolish
* cool jazz
* cool kid
* coolly
* cool medium
* coolness
* coolometer
* cool-o-meter
* cool pop
* cool pose
* coolroom
* coolsome
* coolspeak
* cool store
* cool story bro
* cool tankard
* coolth
* hypercool
* ice-cool
* ice cool
* keep a cool head
* keep one's cool
* lose one's cool
* megacool
* outcool
* overcool
* radicool
* supercool
* tacticool
* too cool for school
* ubercool
* ultracool
* uncool
* ur-cool
* zero-cool

##### Descendants

* → Chinese: 酷 (kù)
* → Danish: cool
* → Dutch: cool
* → French: cool
* → German: cool
* → Hebrew: קוּל (kul)
* → Japanese: クール (kūru)
    ⇒ Japanese: クーデレ (kūdere)
       → English: kuudere
* → Polish: cool
* → Romanian: cool
* → Serbo-Croatian:
** Cyrillic script: кул
** Latin script: kul
* → Spanish: cool
* → Swedish: cool
* → Turkish: cool

##### Translations

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#### Noun

cool (uncountable)
* A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
    in the cool of the morning
* A calm temperament.
    Synonyms: calmness, composure
* The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English colen, from Old English cōlian (“to cool, grow cold, be cold”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōlēn (“to become cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to freeze”).
Cognate with Dutch koelen (“to cool”), German kühlen (“to cool”), Swedish kyla (“to cool, refrigerate”). Also partially from Middle English kelen, from Old English cēlan (“to cool, be cold, become cold”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōlijan, from Proto-Germanic *kōlijaną (“to cool”), altered to resemble the adjective cool. See keel.

#### Verb

cool (third-person singular simple present cools, present participle cooling, simple past and past participle cooled)
* (intransitive, literally) To lose heat, to get colder.
    Synonym: cool down
    Antonyms: warm, warm up, heat, heat up
    Hyponym: freeze
    I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue.
* (transitive, literally) To make cooler, less warm.
    Synonyms: chill, cool down, refrigerate; deheat (rare)
    Antonyms: warm, warm up, heat, heat up
    Hyponym: freeze
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 16:24:Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.
* (intransitive, figuratively) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
    Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.
* (transitive, figuratively) To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
** c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts.
* (transitive, slang, dated) To kill, murder.
** 1965, "Sex Jungle" (narrated in Perversion for Profit)
    Maybe he would die. That would mean I had murdered him. I smiled, trying the idea on for size. One of the things that always had cheesed me a little was that I had no kills to my credit. I'd been in plenty of rumbles, but somehow, I'd never cooled anyone. Well maybe now I had my first one. I couldn't feel very proud of skulling an old man, but at least I could say that I'd scored. That was a big kick.
** 1967, Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 31:Big-mouth got up as fast as he could, and I was thinking how much heart he had. But I ran toward him like my life depended on it; I wanted to cool him.
* (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To relax, hang out.
    Synonym: bool (slang)
** 1986, “6 in the Mornin'”‎performed by Ice-T:Seen my homeboys coolin' way way out / Told 'em bout my mornin' cold bugged' em out
** 2000, Paul Beatty, Tuff: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 223:"What up, kid?" ¶ "Coolin'."
** '1997, Courttia Newland, The Scholar: A West Side Story, London: Abacus, →ISBN, page 207:Asbestos? Raa, dat's a dangerous t'ing boy, dat ain't good. You know what though, you guys should min' yourselves walkin' street star, dere's bere nutters about. I know you're in a crew but boy can't you jus' cool at someone's house?'

##### Derived terms

* aftercool
* coolable
* coolant
* cool down
* cooler
* cooling
* cooling card
* cooling center
* cool it
* cool off
* cool one's heels
* cool one's jets
* cool out
* hydrocool
* intercool
* keep one's breath to cool one's porridge
* overcool
* precool
* recool
* save one's breath to cool one's porridge
* self-cooling
* sodium-cooled
* subcool
* undercool

##### Translations
### References

* “cool v.$^2$”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
* “cool v.$^3$”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “cool”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “cool”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* Colo, Colo., colo, colo-, loco

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English cool. Doublet of koel.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ku(ː)l/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: cool
* Rhymes: -ul
* Homophone: koel

### Adjective

cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolst)
* cool, fashionable

#### Derived terms

* coolheid
* oncool
* retecool
* supercool

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English cool.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kul/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ul
* Homophones: coule, coules, coulent

### Adjective

cool (invariable)
* cool (only its informal senses, mainly fashionable)
    Les jeunes boivent de l’alcool pour être cool.Young people drink alcohol to be cool.

### Interjection

cool
* cool! great!

#### Derived terms

* cool, Raoul

### Anagrams

* looc

## German
### Etymology

Borrowed from English cool. Doublet of kühl.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuːl/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

cool (strong nominative masculine singular cooler, comparative cooler, superlative am coolsten)
* (colloquial) cool (in its informal senses)
    Synonyms: brilliant, genial, geil
    Die Musik war echt cool. ― The music was very cool.
** 1982, “Der Kommissar”, in Einzelhaft, performed by Falco:Wir treffen Jill und Joe und dessen Bruder Hip / Und auch den Rest der coolen Gang(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (colloquial) cool, calm, easy-going
    Synonyms: lässig, ruhig
    Als Trainer muss mann ziemlich cool sein.As a trainer you have to be quite easy-going.

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “cool” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “cool” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
* “cool” in Duden online
* “cool” in OpenThesaurus.de

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cool.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkul/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ul
* Syllabification: cool

### Adjective

cool (not comparable, no derived adverb)
* (slang) cool (in its informal senses)
    Synonyms: świetny, wspaniały, znakomity

### Further reading

* cool in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* cool in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈku/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈku/
* Rhymes: -u

### Noun

cool m (plural cools)
* Filter-avoidance spelling of cu (“anus, butthole”).
    Synonym: 🆒

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cool.

### Adjective

cool m or f or n (indeclinable)
* cool

#### Declension
### Adverb

cool
* cool

### Noun

cool n (uncountable)
* cool

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* cul

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cool.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkul/ [ˈkul]
* Rhymes: -ul

### Adjective

cool m or f (masculine and feminine plural cools or cool)
* cool (in its informal sense)

#### Usage notes

* According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

### Further reading

* “cool”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
* Diccionario de anglicismos del español estadounidense

### Anagrams

* loco

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English cool. Attested since 1951.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuːl/
* Rhymes: -uːl

### Adjective

cool (comparative coolare, superlative coolast)
* (colloquial) cool (calm, collected)
    Träskmonstret röt åt honom, men han var helt cool.The swamp monster roared at him, but he was completely cool.
* (colloquial) cool (appealing in a calm, controlled way)
    en cool snubbe med coola solglasögon ― a cool guy with cool sunglasses
    Han tyckte rymden var cool. ― He thought space was cool.

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

#### See also

* häftig
* tuff

### References

* cool in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* cool in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

## Turkish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cool

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuːɫ/
* Hyphenation: kul

### Adjective

cool
* cool