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adjective

Cool adj. (compar. cooler; superl. coolest)

1.

Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness. "Fanned with cool winds."

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."

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."

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." "Leaving a cool thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket."

Synonyms: Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed; repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.

noun

Cooler n.

1.

That which cools, or abates heat or excitement. "If acid things were used only as coolers, they would not be so proper in this case."

2.

Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc.

3.

An alcoholic beverage containing liquor or wine plus a carbonated beverage, usually served with ice.

4.

Jail; usually used in the form the cooler. (slang)

5.

An air conditioner.

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Etymology of 'Cooler'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cooler" Quotes from Famous Books

... scattered to the North and East—gone to the lakes, to New-York, to Boston, or to some summer resort upon the Atlantic coast—all who could, breaking the long-continued and oppressive heat by a pleasant excursion to some cooler clime. My friend, the minister's daughter, and most of our own family, had gone like the rest, and I was left in a somewhat solitary state to while away the long hours of those burning summer days, in the monotony of a large and ...

— Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. V, May, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... when—my eye being fixed on hers—I witnessed in its iris and pupil a startling transfiguration. These sudden, dangerous natures—sensitive as they are called—offer many a curious spectacle to those whom a cooler temperament has secured from participation in their angular vagaries. The fixed and heavy gaze swum, trembled, then glittered in fire; the small, overcast brow cleared; the trivial and dejected features lit up; the sad countenance vanished, and in its place appeared a sudden eagerness, ...

— Villette • Charlotte Bronte

... cafes, which were filled to overflowing. People were sitting close together in small select companies, and looked gay and happy. On the tables round which they sat, stood the wine-cooler with the champagne bottle pointing obliquely upward as though it were going to shoot down heaven itself to them. How secure they appeared to feel! Had they no suspicion that they were sitting upon a thin crust, with the hell of ...

— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

... delighted at the prospect of such an experience, for the silent, solitary mesa made them feel they were indeed "in the wilds of the Great American Desert." The afternoon had been hot and the ride dusty, but there was now a cooler feeling in the air since the sun had fallen low in ...

— Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John • Edith Van Dyne

... beating down on us now, and since, after I had been duly labelled "G.S.W. (gun-shot wound) Back," a Medical Staff Officer advised that I should be transferred into the officers' hut, I entered its cooler shades with much gladness. ...

— Attack - An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916 • Edward G. D. Liveing

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