cool

cool is a 4-letter English word with 22 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 22 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.
2. superlative. Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater.
3. superlative. Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.
4. superlative. Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.
5. superlative. Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.
6. superlative. Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
7. noun. A moderate state of cold; coolness; -- said of the temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.
8. transitive verb. To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water.
9. transitive verb. To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.
10. intransitive verb. To become less hot; to lose heat.
11. intransitive verb. To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate.
12. noun. great coolness and composure under strain

    "keep your cool"

    Synonyms: aplomb, assuredness, poise

13. noun. the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature

    "the cool of early morning"

14. verb. loose heat

    "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"

    Synonyms: chill

15. verb. lose intensity

    "His enthusiasm cooled considerably"

16. verb. make cool or cooler

    "Chill the food"

    Synonyms: chill

17. adjective. marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional

    "play it cool"

    "keep cool"

    Synonyms: coolheaded, nerveless

18. adjective. fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept

    "he's a cool dude"

    "that's cool"

19. adjective. (used of a number or sum) without exaggeration or qualification

    "a cool million bucks"

20. adjective. neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat

    "a cool autumn day"

    "a cool room"

21. adjective. psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike

    "relations were cool and polite"

    "a cool reception"

22. adjective. (color) inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets

    "cool greens and blues and violets"

Synonyms

aplomb, assuredness, poise, chill, coolheaded, nerveless

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cool:

loco

Common word forms

cools, cooled, coolen, cooler, coolly, coolest, cooling, coolness

Words from these letters

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