cool

nl-adj

cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolst)

cooler (comparative)
coolst (superlative)
cool (adverbial positive predicative)
cooler (adverbial comparative predicative)
het coolst (adverbial predicative superlative)
het coolste (adverbial predicative superlative)
coole (feminine indefinite masculine positive singular)
coolere (comparative feminine indefinite masculine singular)
coolste (feminine indefinite masculine singular superlative)
cool (indefinite neuter positive singular)
cooler (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
coolste (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
coole (indefinite plural positive)
coolere (comparative indefinite plural)
coolste (indefinite plural superlative)
coole (definite positive)
coolere (comparative definite)
coolste (definite superlative)
cools (partitive positive)
coolers (comparative partitive)

Borrowed from English cool. Doublet of koel.


cool

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:[…].

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:

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.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

If you have a reddish complexion, you should mainly wear cool colors.

Of a color, in the range of violet to green.

Be cool. There's no need to panic.

(of a person) Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.

His proposals had a cool reception.

"Well, that's cool," said Laurie to himself, "to have a picnic and never ask me!"

1868, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 13, in Little Women: […], part first, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1869, →OCLC:

Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.

1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “V. Hester at her Needle”, in The Scarlet Letter:

Who will lend me a cool hundred.

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

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.

1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XVIII, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 303:

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?

My father was talking to the World's Fair Commission yesterday, and they estimate it's going to cost a cool fifty million.

1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.

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.

2017 December 27, “The Guardian view on Prince Harry: the monarchy’s best insurance policy”, in the Guardian:

en:knowing how to behave astutely; popular with others

(informal, of a person) Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by others.

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, originally African-American Vernacular) Fashionable; trendy; hip.

Is it cool if I sleep here tonight?

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.

1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett, Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:

I think astronomy is really cool.

(informal) Very interesting or exciting.

I'm completely cool with my girlfriend leaving me.

(informal) Followed by with, able to tolerate.

We're cool, right?

(informal) Of a pair of people, Having good relations.

en-adj

cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolest)

cooler (comparative)
coolest (superlative)
coo (alternative slang)
kewl (alternative slang)
kool (alternative slang)
qewl (alternative slang)
qool (alternative slang)

→ 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

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colloquial: of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave in any situation

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colloquial: being considered as "popular" by others

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.


cool

in the cool of the morning

A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.

The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.

coo (alternative slang)
kewl (alternative slang)
kool (alternative slang)
qewl (alternative slang)
qool (alternative slang)


cool

I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue.

(intransitive, literally) To lose heat, to get colder.

Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 16:24:

(transitive, literally) To make cooler, less warm.

Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.

(intransitive, figuratively) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.

We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts.

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]:

(transitive, figuratively) To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.

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.

1965, "Sex Jungle" (narrated in Perversion for Profit)

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.

1967, Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 31:

(transitive, slang, dated) To kill, murder.

Seen my homeboys coolin' way way out / Told 'em bout my mornin' cold bugged' em out

1986, “6 in the Mornin'”performed by Ice-T:

"What up, kid?" ¶ "Coolin'."

2000, Paul Beatty, Tuff: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 223:

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?'

1997, Courttia Newland, The Scholar: A West Side Story, London: Abacus, →ISBN, page 207:

(intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To relax, hang out.

en-verb

cool (third-person singular simple present cools, present participle cooling, simple past and past participle cooled)

cools (present singular third-person)
cooling (participle present)
cooled (participle past)
cooled (past)
coo (alternative slang)
kewl (alternative slang)
kool (alternative slang)
qewl (alternative slang)
qool (alternative slang)

keep one's breath to cool one's porridge

save one's breath to cool one's porridge

冷淡

to become less intense, e.g. less amicable

afkoelen

to make less intense, e.g. less amicable

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.


cool

Les jeunes boivent de l’alcool pour être cool.

cool (only its informal senses, mainly fashionable)


cool

Die Musik war echt cool.

Wir treffen Jill und Joe und dessen Bruder Hip / Und auch den Rest der coolen Gang

1982, “Der Kommissar”, in Einzelhaft, performed by Falco:

(colloquial) cool (in its informal senses)

Als Trainer muss mann ziemlich cool sein.

As a trainer you have to be quite easy-going.

de-adj

cool (strong nominative masculine singular cooler, comparative cooler, superlative am coolsten)

cooler (masculine nominative singular strong)
cooler (comparative)
am coolsten (superlative)
cool (masculine predicative singular)
cool (feminine predicative singular)
cool (neuter predicative singular)
cool (plural predicative)
cooler (masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
coole (feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
cooles (neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
coole (nominative plural strong without-article)
coolen (genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
cooler (feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
coolen (genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
cooler (genitive plural strong without-article)
coolem (dative masculine singular strong without-article)
cooler (dative feminine singular strong without-article)
coolem (dative neuter singular strong without-article)
coolen (dative plural strong without-article)
coolen (accusative masculine singular strong without-article)
coole (accusative feminine singular strong without-article)
cooles (accusative neuter singular strong without-article)
coole (accusative plural strong without-article)
der coole (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die coole (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das coole (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die coolen (definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des coolen (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der coolen (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des coolen (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der coolen (definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem coolen (dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der coolen (dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem coolen (dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den coolen (dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den coolen (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die coole (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das coole (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die coolen (accusative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein cooler (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine coole (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein cooles (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
coolen (indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine coolen (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines coolen (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer coolen (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines coolen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
coolen (genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner coolen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem coolen (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer coolen (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem coolen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
coolen (dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen coolen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen coolen (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine coole (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein cooles (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
coolen (accusative indefinite mixed plural)
keine coolen (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
cooler (comparative masculine predicative singular)
cooler (comparative feminine predicative singular)
cooler (comparative neuter predicative singular)
cooler (comparative plural predicative)
coolerer (comparative masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
coolere (comparative feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
cooleres (comparative neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
coolere (comparative nominative plural strong without-article)
cooleren (comparative genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
coolerer (comparative feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
cooleren (comparative genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
coolerer (comparative genitive plural strong without-article)
coolerem (comparative dative masculine singular strong without-article)
coolerer (comparative dative feminine singular strong without-article)
coolerem (comparative dative neuter singular strong without-article)
cooleren (comparative dative plural strong without-article)
cooleren (accusative comparative masculine singular strong without-article)
coolere (accusative comparative feminine singular strong without-article)
cooleres (accusative comparative neuter singular strong without-article)
coolere (accusative comparative plural strong without-article)
der coolere (comparative definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die coolere (comparative definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das coolere (comparative definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die cooleren (comparative definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des cooleren (comparative definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der cooleren (comparative definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des cooleren (comparative definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der cooleren (comparative definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem cooleren (comparative dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der cooleren (comparative dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem cooleren (comparative dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den cooleren (comparative dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den cooleren (accusative comparative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die coolere (accusative comparative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das coolere (accusative comparative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die cooleren (accusative comparative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein coolerer (comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine coolere (comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein cooleres (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
cooleren (comparative indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine cooleren (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines cooleren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer cooleren (comparative feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines cooleren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
cooleren (comparative genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner cooleren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem cooleren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer cooleren (comparative dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem cooleren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
cooleren (comparative dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen cooleren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen cooleren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine coolere (accusative comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein cooleres (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
cooleren (accusative comparative indefinite mixed plural)
keine cooleren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
am coolsten (masculine predicative singular superlative)
am coolsten (feminine predicative singular superlative)
am coolsten (neuter predicative singular superlative)
am coolsten (plural predicative superlative)
coolster (masculine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
coolste (feminine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
coolstes (neuter nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
coolste (nominative plural strong superlative without-article)
coolsten (genitive masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
coolster (feminine genitive singular strong superlative without-article)
coolsten (genitive neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
coolster (genitive plural strong superlative without-article)
coolstem (dative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
coolster (dative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
coolstem (dative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
coolsten (dative plural strong superlative without-article)
coolsten (accusative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
coolste (accusative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
coolstes (accusative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
coolste (accusative plural strong superlative without-article)
der coolste (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular superlative weak)
die coolste (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular superlative weak)
das coolste (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular superlative weak)
die coolsten (definite includes-article nominative plural superlative weak)
des coolsten (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der coolsten (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular superlative weak)
des coolsten (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
der coolsten (definite genitive includes-article plural superlative weak)
dem coolsten (dative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der coolsten (dative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
dem coolsten (dative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
den coolsten (dative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
den coolsten (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
die coolste (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
das coolste (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
die coolsten (accusative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
ein coolster (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular superlative)
eine coolste (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular superlative)
ein coolstes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular superlative)
coolsten (indefinite mixed nominative plural superlative)
keine coolsten (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural superlative)
eines coolsten (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer coolsten (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
eines coolsten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
coolsten (genitive indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keiner coolsten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einem coolsten (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer coolsten (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
einem coolsten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
coolsten (dative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keinen coolsten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einen coolsten (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
eine coolste (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
ein coolstes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
coolsten (accusative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keine coolsten (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)

Borrowed from English cool. Doublet of kühl.


cool

pl-adj

cool (not comparable, no derived adverb)


cool

Filter-avoidance spelling of cu (“anus, butthole”).


cool

cool (indefinite masculine neuter singular)
cool (feminine indefinite singular)
cool (indefinite masculine plural)
cool (feminine indefinite neuter plural)


cool

cool (accusative indefinite nominative)
coolul (accusative definite nominative)
cool (indefinite)
coolului (definite)
coolule (vocative)


cool

es-adj

cool m or f (masculine and feminine plural cools or cool)

cools (feminine masculine plural)
cool (feminine masculine plural)
cul (alternative)


cool

Träskmonstret röt åt honom, men han var helt cool.

The swamp monster roared at him, but he was completely cool.

en cool snubbe med coola solglasögon

Han tyckte rymden var cool.

(colloquial) cool (appealing in a calm, controlled way)

head

cool (comparative coolare, superlative coolast)

coolare (comparative)
coolast (superlative)
cool (indefinite positive)
coolare (comparative indefinite)
coolast (indefinite superlative)
coolt (indefinite neuter positive singular)
coolare (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
coolast (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
coola (indefinite plural positive)
coolare (comparative indefinite plural)
coolast (indefinite plural superlative)
coole (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
coolare (archaic comparative indefinite masculine plural)
coolast (archaic indefinite masculine plural superlative)
coole (definite masculine positive singular)
coolare (comparative definite masculine singular)
coolaste (definite masculine singular superlative)
coola (definite positive)
coolare (comparative definite)
coolaste (definite superlative)

Borrowed from English cool. Attested since 1951.