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adjective
- Moderately cold lacking in warmth
"The plant grows best in cool climates."
- Marked by steady dispassionate calmness and self-control
"a cool and calculating businessperson"
- Lacking ardor or friendliness
"a cool impersonal manner"
- Marked by restrained emotion and the frequent use of counterpoint
- Free from tensions or violence
"We used to fight, but we're cool now."
- Used as an intensive
- Marked by deliberate effrontery or lack of due respect or discretion
"a cool reply"
- Facilitating or suggesting relief from heat
"a cool dress"
- Producing an impression of being cool
- Relatively lacking in timbre or resonance see resonance
- Very good excellent
"That was a really cool movie."
- Fashionable, hip
"… not happy with the new shoes … because they were not "cool.""
verb
- To become cool lose heat or warmth
"placed the pie in the window to cool"
- To lose ardor or passion
"His anger cooled."
- To make cool impart a feeling of coolness to
"cooled the room with a fan"
- To moderate the heat, excitement, or force of calm
"cooled her growing anger"
- To slow or lessen the growth or activity of
noun
- A cool time, place, or situation
"the cool of the evening"
- Absence of excitement or emotional involvement detachment
"… must surrender his fine cool and enter the closed crazy world of suicide …"
- Poise, composure
"The player lost his cool and began yelling at the referee."
- Hipness
adverb
- In a casual and nonchalant manner
"play it cool"
interjection
- Used like cool to express agreement or approval
noun
- Someone who remains calm and is not easily upset
idiom
- Not upset not very bothered by things
"My brother is always calm, cool, and collected."
idiom
- To stay calm
"It is important to keep a cool head in a crisis."
idiom
- To remain calm
"It is important to keep/stay cool in a crisis."
idiom
- To act calm
"She didn't want to seem too eager, so she decided to play it cool."
This clue was used on January 3, 2026.