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adjective
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Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
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Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
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Linen has made cool and breathable clothing for millennia.
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Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
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If you have a reddish complexion, you should mainly wear cool colors.
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Of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
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Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.
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His proposals had a cool reception.
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Calmly audacious.
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In control as always, he came up with a cool plan.
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Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
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Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.
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In fashion, part of or fitting the in crowd; originally hipster slang.
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Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.
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Is it cool if I sleep here tonight?
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Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting.
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I'm completely cool with my girlfriend leaving me.
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Quietly impudent, defiant, or selfish; deliberately presuming: said of persons and acts.
Examples of cool in a Sentence
She woke to a cool dawn.
It's a nice cool morning.
It looked cool and casual, but not provocative.
How cool and delicious it was!
There it was cool and quiet, with a scent of autumn.
She ate the meat and drank some of the cool water.
The weather had turned sultry but there was a cool breeze out on the patio by the barbecue.
It felt cool and she glanced up at him in surprise.
She met his cool gaze.
Desire rose hot and fast in him, more so when he felt the cool tickle of her power, the combination of cool energy and warm skin making his blood race.
He chuckled and ran cool fingers across her hot cheek.
Connie returned with a cool damp rag which she placed on Lisa's face and then the back of her neck.
Carmen wiped Destiny's face and eyes with the cool rag and used a tissue to wipe her nose.
The Internet has no central planning agency deciding what new, cool websites should be made.
I guess a walk in the cool evening isn't worth the risk of being eaten up by beasts is it?
He placed a cool canteen on her lap.
The Keene State College sounds cool too.
Still feeling the sobering effects of that cool regard, she forced a smile.
As I walk along the stony shore of the pond in my shirt-sleeves, though it is cool as well as cloudy and windy, and I see nothing special to attract me, all the elements are unusually congenial to me.
This short man nodded to Dolgorukov as to an intimate friend and stared at Prince Andrew with cool intensity, walking straight toward him and evidently expecting him to bow or to step out of his way.
The tang of the untainted, fresh and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought, and the shells and pebbles and the seaweed with tiny living creatures attached to it never lost their fascination for me.
When the band took a break, Carmen was looking for something cool to drink.
It was in her mind to tell Claudette to take a long walk off a short pier, but a cool voice interrupted them at that moment.
Or perchance, at evening, I hear him in his stable blowing off the superfluous energy of the day, that he may calm his nerves and cool his liver and brain for a few hours of iron slumber.
In the warmest weather I usually placed a pailful in my cellar, where it became cool in the night, and remained so during the day; though I also resorted to a spring in the neighborhood.
She said in a cool tone.
Taking a zip-lock bag of scraps from the refrigerator, she opened the door and stepped out into the cool dawn.
Why should he not cool himself in the refreshing water?
The cool energy her body produced when she healed streamed through her, rousing her as it repaired the latest damage.
It was a subtle shift, an undercurrent of cool energy that brushed by him, like when Sofi used her voodoo fortune-telling powers around him.
So it was natural that to earn extra money, Jason and I would buy cool, old cars we found in junkyards for a few hundred dollars apiece.
There, too, after a fit of temper, I went to find comfort and to hide my hot face in the cool leaves and grass.
It was so cool up in the tree that Miss Sullivan proposed that we have our luncheon there.
It was a rather cool evening, and some of his neighbors were apprehending a frost.
Following Señor Medena up the stairs, she ran her hand along the smooth wood, enjoying the cool silky soft feel of it.
She stared at his profile and tried to make her voice cool and commanding.
Lifting the hair off the back of her neck, he applied the cool towel.
Maybe it was his looming death, or maybe it was the energy from her cool touch that calmed him from the inside out, but he wondered what life would've been like had his family survived.
Closing it behind her, she moved into the cool moist air.
She looked and felt cool, and only part of the bruising was visible.
The water was cool and had a metallic taste.
He was distant, even cool towards her.
We'll talk when you cool off and get yourself together.
So that's why you acted so cool for a while.
She released her cool power into him, but to no effect.
Nowadays, the social reformer is cool and hip.
In the evening, when it is cool and pleasant, we would walk in the yard, and catch the grasshoppers and butterflies.
From the top of the hill where I stood I saw my army surging over a sunlit plain like angry breakers, and as they moved, I saw the green of fields, like the cool hollows between billows.
The north wind had already begun to cool the pond, though it took many weeks of steady blowing to accomplish it, it is so deep.
It may be that he lays up no treasures in this world which will cool his summer drink in the next.