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cool (KOOL) (adjective)
1. Neither warm nor very cold; moderately cold: We enjoyed the fresh, cool water flowing by our tent during a cool autumn evening in the park.
2. Marked by calm self-control: She was a cool negotiator during the heat of the argument.
3. Referring to, relating to, or characteristic of colors; such as, blue and green, that produce the impression of freshness, calm, and no heat: The moderate blue of the room seemed to make Elena feel cool and comfortable.
4. In a calm manner or a way that does not seem unusual or excited: Amy didn't want to seem too eager, so she tried to play it cool or to pretend to be calm even though she wasn't feeling calm.
2. Marked by calm self-control: She was a cool negotiator during the heat of the argument.
3. Referring to, relating to, or characteristic of colors; such as, blue and green, that produce the impression of freshness, calm, and no heat: The moderate blue of the room seemed to make Elena feel cool and comfortable.
4. In a calm manner or a way that does not seem unusual or excited: Amy didn't want to seem too eager, so she tried to play it cool or to pretend to be calm even though she wasn't feeling calm.
cool (KOOL) (verb)
To make less ardent, intense, or zealous: The problems that arose tended to cool Pat's enthusiasm for the project.
The cool weather tended to cool the passions of the marchers in the parade.
The marchers were waving flags of many cool colors which they waved in a rhythmic and cool way.
At the end of the parade, the marchers took off their shoes and put their feet in the pond to cool their feet.
This entry is located in the following unit:
Confusing Words Clarified: Group C; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc.
(page 10)
psychrocole (verb), psychrocoles; psychrocoled; psychrocoling: cool
Existing in low temperatures.
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-cola, -colas; -cole; -colent; -colid; -coline; -colous
(page 20)