cooladjective
uk/kuːl/us/kuːl/cool adjective (COLD)
B1 slightly cold:
B1 slightly cold in a pleasant way:
used to describe a temperature that is slightly too cold:
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- When the biscuits are cool, you coat them in/with melted chocolate.
- As she dived into the pool, the water felt deliciously cool on her skin.
- Plants keep cool during the summer by evaporating water from their leaves.
- It's cool and quiet everywhere except in the kitchen.
- In cool climates you have to grow tropical plants under glass.
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Cool
- bracing
- cool (sb/sth) down/off
- coolness
- crisp
- fresh
- refresh
- refreshing
- temperate
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cool adjective (CALM)
C1 calm and not worried or frightened; not influenced by strong feeling of any kind:
to be happy to accept a situation or suggestion:
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Calm and relaxed
- (as) cool as a cucumber idiom
- at (your) leisure idiom
- be at peace with the world idiom
- carefree
- careless
- comfortably
- easy come, easy go idiom
- easy-going
- equilibrium
- free-flowing
- genteel
- harmonious
- lamb
- peaceful
- poised
- quiescent
- relaxed
- rested
- sangfroid
- sedate
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cool adjective (COLOUR)
Cool colours, such as blue or green, make you feel calm and relaxed:
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The qualities of colour
- a riot of colour idiom
- ablaze
- brash
- bright
- colorful
- colourful
- depth
- dusky
- flamboyant
- fluorescent
- harsh
- high-visibility
- loud
- muddy
- psychedelic
- pure
- riot
- technicolor
- vibrant
- warm
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cool adjective (UNFRIENDLY)
C2 unfriendly or not showing kindness or interest in something or someone:
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Not being friendly
- (at) daggers drawn idiom
- abrasive
- antisocial
- asocial
- austere
- estrange
- estranged
- forbidding
- frostily
- give sb the time of day idiom
- hostile
- icy
- saturnine
- sour
- unsociable
- unwelcoming
- wintry
- with friends like you, who needs enemies? idiom
- withdraw
- withdrawal
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cool adjective (FASHIONABLE)
A2 informal fashionable or attractive:
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Modern & fashionable
- be (all) the rage idiom
- be having a moment idiom
- be the last word in sth idiom
- be the new sth idiom
- futuristic
- get with the programme idiom
- happening
- high-tech
- hip
- hipster
- minute 1
- programme
- progressive
- sharp
- space-age
- state-of-the-art
- street cred
- swinger
- swinging
- à la mode
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Idiom(s)
cooladjective, exclamation
uk/kuːl/us/kuːl/informalA2 excellent; very good:
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- Jason was one cool dude.
- Pretty cool, huh?
- Have you seen Chrissie's new leather jacket? It's majorly cool.
- Our new car is really cool.
- 'Jamie's invited us to stay for a few days.' 'Cool!'
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Informal words for good
- A-OK
- ace
- amazeballs
- apple pie
- awesomesauce
- badass
- champion
- jim-dandy
- juicy
- killer
- knock
- knock spots off sth idiom
- magic
- rule
- sight
- smashing
- some
- splendiferous
- steal the show/scene idiom
- stupendous
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coolnoun
uk/kuːl/us/kuːl/cool noun (COLD)
the pleasant, slightly cold temperature of a place:
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Cool
- bracing
- cool (sb/sth) down/off
- coolness
- crisp
- fresh
- refresh
- refreshing
- temperate
cool noun (CALM)
C1 [ U ] informal a person's ability to stay calm and not become angry or excited:
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Calm and relaxed
- (as) cool as a cucumber idiom
- at (your) leisure idiom
- be at peace with the world idiom
- carefree
- careless
- comfortably
- easy come, easy go idiom
- easy-going
- equilibrium
- free-flowing
- genteel
- harmonious
- lamb
- peaceful
- poised
- quiescent
- relaxed
- rested
- sangfroid
- sedate
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coolverb
uk/kuːl/us/kuːl/cool verb (BECOME COLD)
B2 [ I or T ] to become or cause something to become slightly colder:
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Cool
- bracing
- cool (sb/sth) down/off
- coolness
- crisp
- fresh
- refresh
- refreshing
- temperate
cool verb (BECOME LESS)
[ I ] also cool off If a feeling cools or cools off, it starts to become less strong:
[ I ] also cool off If the economy, a business, etc. cools or cools off, it grows less fast than before:
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Becoming and making less strong
- abate
- adulterate
- attenuate
- attrition
- blow over
- blunt
- decline
- dial
- dim
- emasculate
- flagging
- jelly
- keep sb down
- knock/take the stuffing out of sb/sth idiom
- muffle
- neutralize
- pine
- sag
- wilt
- wither on the vine idiom
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