📒 fairly cold; not hot or warm
- cool air/water
- a cool breeze/drink/climate
- Cooler weather is forecast for the weekend.
📒 helping you keep cool
- Wear light, cool clothing but try to avoid shorts.
📒 making you feel pleasantly cool
- a room painted in cool greens and blues
📒 used to show that you admire or approve of somebody/something because they are/it is fashionable, attractive and often different
- Doesn't she look cool in those sunglasses?
- He's a really cool guy.
- You look pretty cool with that new haircut.
📒 used to describe something that you like or enjoy
- We had such a cool time with Ed and his friends.
- I really hope you can come—it'd be so cool!
- it is cool to do something It was totally cool to see him in real life.
📒 used to show that you approve of something or agree to a suggestion
- We're meeting Jake for lunch and we can go on the yacht in the afternoon.’ ‘Cool!’
- Can you come at 10.30 tomorrow?’ ‘That's cool.’
- ‘Yeah, sure. That sounds cool,’ he replied.
📒 calm; not excited, angry or emotional
- Keep cool!
- Just stay cool and don't panic.
- She tried to remain cool, calm and collected (= calm).
📒 not friendly, interested or enthusiastic
- They gave the prime minister a cool reception.
- Her voice was cool and dismissive.
- cool about something She was decidedly cool about the proposal.
📒 calm and confident in a way that lacks respect for other people, but makes people admire you even if they don't approve
- She just took his keys and walked out with them, cool as you please.
- He was a cool customer. No one would think to look for him in a city where he’d been arrested for killing a cop.
📒 used about a sum of money to emphasize how large it is
- The car cost a cool thirty thousand.
📒 very calm and showing control, especially in a difficult situation
- George is cool as a cucumber and this should be just another operation for him.
📒 to deal with a situation in a calm way and not show what you are really feeling
- I decided to play it cool and act like I had actually forgotten all about it.
📒 to consider a problem or possibility very carefully and without hurrying
- We need to take a long, hard look at all the options.
📒 very fashionable
- The assistants look like they're too cool for school.