cool
adjective
uk
/kuːl/ us
/kuːl/cool adjective (COLD)
- When the biscuits are cool, you coat them in/with melted chocolate.
- As she dived into the pool, the water felt deliciously cool on her skin.
- Plants keep cool during the summer by evaporating water from their leaves.
- It's cool and quiet everywhere except in the kitchen.
- In cool climates you have to grow tropical plants under glass.
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cool adjective (CALM)
C1
cool adjective (GOOD)
A2 informal
Angie's got some cool new sunglasses.
- fashionableShe's so fashionable.
- in fashionTighter trousers for men are back in fashion.
- inShort jackets are in this season.
- coolHe was wearing a pair of cool sunglasses.
- hipWe went to the hip new club in town.
- trendyHe likes trendy clothes and modern furniture.
informal
excellent; very good:
informal
- ahead of time phrase
- be (all) the rage idiom
- be having a moment idiom
- funky
- futuristic
- futuristically
- get with the programme idiom
- granola
- shabby chic
- sleekly
- sleekness
- smartly
- smartness
- the avant-garde
- ultra-sophisticated
- up to date
- up-to-the-minute idiom
- way-out
- with it
- à la mode
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cool adjective (COLOUR)
cool adjective (UNFRIENDLY)
C2
cool towards She was decidedly cool towards me.
cool reception/welcome I got a rather cool reception/welcome this evening. What do you think I've done wrong?
- unfriendlyThe crowd was unfriendly and dangerous.
- coolShe was very cool towards his new wife.
- coldShe's a cold, heartless woman.
- icyHe gave me an icy stare.
- glacialHer reception of him was glacial.
- abrasive
- abrasively
- abrasiveness
- abruptly
- abruptness
- aloof
- estrangement
- flintily
- forbidding
- forbiddingly
- freezingly
- offhandedness
- offish
- remote
- remoteness
- reserved
- saturnine
- unwelcoming
- wintry
- with friends like you, who needs enemies? idiom
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cool
exclamation
informal uk
/kuːl/ us
/kuːl/A2
used for saying that you think something is good or acceptable, or that you have understood what you have been told:
cool
noun
uk
/kuːl/ us
/kuːl/cool noun (COLD)
cool noun (CALM)
cool
verb
uk
/kuːl/ us
/kuːl/cool verb (BECOME COLD)
- coolWait until the mixture cools before adding the eggs.
- cool downLet the pan cool down a bit before you touch it.
- chillChill the wine in the fridge.
- freezeYou have to wait until the pond freezes before you can skate safely on it.
cool verb (BECOME LESS)
- abate
- abatement
- adulterate
- adulterated
- adulteration
- be fading away/fast idiom
- dull
- emasculation
- enervate
- enervating
- enervatingly
- enfeeble
- hedge
- melt
- relieve
- tottering
- turn to jelly idiom
- undimmed
- unsubdued
- wane
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