cool

Other spellings

• (nonstandard slang) kewl

Pronunciation

• enPR: ko͞ol
• IPA: /kuːl/
• SAMPA: /ku:l/
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Adjective

Positive cool

Comparative cooler

Superlative coolest

1. If something is cool, its temperature is between warm and cold.

   It's hard to keep the house nice and cool on a hot summer's day.

   The air was cool, so he put on his jacket.

2. If you say something is cool you mean it is good and you like it.

   That's a really cool cell phone! Where did you get it?

   Wow, your computer looks cool!

Verb

Plain form cool

Third-person singular cools

Past tense cooled

Past participle cooled

Present participle cooling

1. (transitive & intransitive) If you cool something, you decrease the temperature.

   Blow on the coffee to cool it off.

2. (transitive & intransitive) If something cools, its temperature decreases.

   The soup was too hot, so he waited for it to cool a little.