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单词 cool
释义

cool

See also: Cool and COOL

English

Alternative forms

  • (slang) c00l, coo, k00l, kewl, kool, qewl, qool

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ko͞ol, IPA(key): /kuːl/
  • Rhymes: -uːl
  • Audio (UK)(file)

Etymology 1

From Middle English cool, from Old English cōl (“cool, cold, tranquil, calm”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōl(ī), from Proto-Germanic *kōlaz, *kōluz (“cool”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian köil (“cool”), West Frisian koel (“cool”), Dutch koel (“cool”), Limburgish kool (“cool”), German Low German köhl (“cool”), German kühl (“cool”). Related to cold.

Adjective

cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolest)

cool colors
  1. Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
    Synonym: chilly
    Antonyms: lukewarm, tepid, warm
    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
      The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: […] .
  2. Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
    Linen has made cool and breathable clothing for millennia.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess‎:
      Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.  She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
  3. Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
    Antonym: warm
    If you have a reddish complexion, you should mainly wear cool colors.
  4. Of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
    Synonyms: distant, phlegmatic, standoffish, unemotional
    Antonym: passionate
  5. Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.
    Antonym: warm
    His proposals had a cool reception.
  6. Calmly audacious.
    In control as always, he came up with a cool plan.
    • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “V. Hester at her Needle”, in The Scarlet Letter‎:
      Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.
  7. Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:
      Who will lend me a cool hundred.
    • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XVIII, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, OCLC 3359935, page 303:
      But she had wrote out a little coddleshell in her own hand a day or two afore the accident, leaving a cool four thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket.
    • 1900, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Transmigration
      You remember Bulger, don't you? You lost a cool hundred to him one night here over the cards, eh?
    • 1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:
      My father was talking to the World's Fair Commission yesterday, and they estimate it's going to cost a cool fifty million.
  8. (informal) Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.
    Antonyms: awkward, uncool
    • 2017 December 27, “The Guardian view on Prince Harry: the monarchy’s best insurance policy”, in the Guardian‎:
      He managed to conduct interviews with the least cool global figure – his father, Prince Charles – and the most cool, Barack Obama, in a way that allowed them both to look as good as they could.
  9. (informal) In fashion and fancy, part of or befitting the most leading trends and habits of the in crowd; originally hipster slang.
    Synonyms: à la mode, fashionable, in fashion, modish, stylish, happening, hip, in, trendy
    Antonyms: démodé, old hat, out, out of fashion
    • 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
      The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.
  10. (informal) Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.
    Synonyms: acceptable, all right, OK
    Antonyms: (UK) not cricket, not on, unacceptable
    Is it cool if I sleep here tonight?
  11. (informal) Very interesting or exciting.
    I think astronomy is really cool.
    Synonyms: awesome, neat
  12. (informal) (followed by with) Able to tolerate; to be fine with.
    I'm completely cool with my girlfriend leaving me.
    Synonyms: easy, fine, not bothered, not fussed
    Antonyms: bothered, upset
  13. (informal) (of a pair of people) holding no grudge against one another; having no beef.
    We're cool, right?
  14. (sarcastic) (of an act or situation) annoying, irritating.
    • 1868, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 13, in Little Women: Or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, part first, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1869, OCLC 30743985:
      "Well, that's cool," said Laurie to himself, "to have a picnic and never ask me!"
Derived terms
Terms derived from cool (adjective)
  • be cool
  • before it was cool
  • blow one's cool
  • cool and the gang
  • cool arrow
  • cool art
  • cool as a cucumber
  • cool bag
  • cool beans
  • coolbox
  • cool box
  • cool cat
  • cool change
  • coolchest
  • coolen
  • cool flame
  • cool gray
  • cool grey
  • cool hand
  • cool head
  • cool-headed
  • cool-headedness
  • cool heads must prevail
  • cool heads prevail
  • cool heads will prevail
  • cool hunter
  • coolish
  • cool jazz
  • cool kid
  • coolly
  • cool medium
  • coolness
  • cool-o-meter
  • cool pose
  • coolroom
  • cool store
  • cool story bro
  • cool tankard
  • coolth
  • ice cool
  • ice-cool
  • keep a cool head
  • keep one's cool
  • lose one's cool
  • too cool for school
  • uncool
  • ur-cool
Descendants
  • → Chinese: 酷
  • → Dutch: cool
  • → French: cool
  • → German: cool
  • → Polish: cool
  • → Spanish: cool
  • → Swedish: cool
  • → Japanese: クール (kūru)
    ⇒ Japanese: クーデレ (kūdere)
    → English: kuudere
Translations
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Noun

cool (uncountable)

  1. A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
    in the cool of the morning
  2. A calm temperament.
    Synonyms: calmness, composure
  3. The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English colen, from Old English cōlian (“to cool, grow cold, be cold”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōlēn (“to become cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to freeze”).

Cognate with Dutch koelen (“to cool”), German kühlen (“to cool”), Swedish kyla (“to cool, refrigerate”). Also partially from Middle English kelen, from Old English cēlan (“to cool, be cold, become cold”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōlijan, from Proto-Germanic *kōlijaną (“to cool”), altered to resemble the adjective cool. See keel.

Verb

cool (third-person singular simple present cools, present participle cooling, simple past and past participle cooled)

  1. (intransitive, literally) To lose heat, to get colder.
    I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue.
  2. (transitive, literally) To make cooler, less warm.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 16:24:
      Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.
  3. (intransitive, figuratively) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
    Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.
  4. (transitive, figuratively) To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
    • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:
      We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts.
  5. (transitive) To kill.
    • 1965, "Sex Jungle" (narrated in Perversion for Profit)
      Maybe he would die. That would mean I had murdered him. I smiled, trying the idea on for size. One of the things that always had cheesed me a little was that I had no kills to my credit. I'd been in plenty of rumbles, but somehow, I'd never cooled anyone. Well maybe now I had my first one. I couldn't feel very proud of skulling an old man, but at least I could say that I'd scored. That was a big kick.
Derived terms
  • coolant
  • cool down
  • cooler
  • cooling
  • cooling card
  • cooling center
  • cool it
  • cool off
  • cool one's heels
  • cool one's jets
  • keep one's breath to cool one's porridge
  • save one's breath to cool one's porridge
  • sodium-cooled
Translations
cool down — see cool down

References

  • cool in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
  • cool at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • Colo, Colo., colo, colo-, loco

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cool. Doublet of koel.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ku(ː)l/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: cool
  • Rhymes: -ul
  • Homophone: koel

Adjective

cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolst)

  1. cool, fashionable

Inflection

Inflection of cool
uninflectedcool
inflectedcoole
comparativecooler
positivecomparativesuperlative
predicative/adverbialcoolcoolerhet coolst
het coolste
indefinitem./f. sing.coolecoolerecoolste
n. sing.coolcoolercoolste
pluralcoolecoolerecoolste
definitecoolecoolerecoolste
partitivecoolscoolers—

French

Etymology

From English cool.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kul/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ul
  • Homophones: coule, coules, coulent

Adjective

cool (invariable)

  1. cool (only its informal senses, mainly fashionable)
    Les jeunes sont cool.
    Young people are cool.
    Les jeunes boivent de l'alcool pour être cool.
    Young people drink alcohol to be cool.

Interjection

cool

  1. cool! great!

Derived terms

  • cool, Raoul

Anagrams

  • looc

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English cool. Doublet of kühl.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kuːl]
  • Audio(file)

Adjective

cool (strong nominative masculine singular cooler, comparative cooler, superlative am coolsten)

  1. (colloquial) cool (in its informal senses)
    Synonyms: brilliant, genial, geil
    Die Musik war echt cool.
    The music was very cool.
    • 1982, “Der Kommissar”, in Einzelhaft, performed by Falco:
      Wir treffen Jill und Joe und dessen Bruder Hip / Und auch den Rest der coolen Gang
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
  2. (colloquial) cool, calm, easy-going
    Synonyms: lässig, ruhig
    Als Trainer muss mann ziemlich cool sein.
    As a trainer you have to be quite easy-going.

Declension

Positive forms of cool
number & gendersingularplural
masculinefeminineneuterall genders
predicativeer ist coolsie ist cooles ist coolsie sind cool
strong declension
(without article)		nominativecoolercoolecoolescoole
genitivecoolencoolercoolencooler
dativecoolemcoolercoolemcoolen
accusativecoolencoolecoolescoole
weak declension
(with definite article)		nominativeder cooledie cooledas cooledie coolen
genitivedes coolender coolendes coolender coolen
dativedem coolender coolendem coolenden coolen
accusativeden coolendie cooledas cooledie coolen
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		nominativeein coolereine cooleein cooles(keine) coolen
genitiveeines cooleneiner cooleneines coolen(keiner) coolen
dativeeinem cooleneiner cooleneinem coolen(keinen) coolen
accusativeeinen cooleneine cooleein cooles(keine) coolen
Comparative forms of cool
number & gendersingularplural
masculinefeminineneuterall genders
predicativeer ist coolersie ist cooleres ist coolersie sind cooler
strong declension
(without article)		nominativecoolerercoolerecoolerescoolere
genitivecoolerencoolerercoolerencoolerer
dativecooleremcoolerercooleremcooleren
accusativecoolerencoolerecoolerescoolere
weak declension
(with definite article)		nominativeder cooleredie cooleredas cooleredie cooleren
genitivedes coolerender coolerendes coolerender cooleren
dativedem coolerender coolerendem coolerenden cooleren
accusativeden coolerendie cooleredas cooleredie cooleren
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		nominativeein coolerereine coolereein cooleres(keine) cooleren
genitiveeines coolereneiner coolereneines cooleren(keiner) cooleren
dativeeinem coolereneiner coolereneinem cooleren(keinen) cooleren
accusativeeinen coolereneine coolereein cooleres(keine) cooleren
Superlative forms of cool
number & gendersingularplural
masculinefeminineneuterall genders
predicativeer ist am coolstensie ist am coolstenes ist am coolstensie sind am coolsten
strong declension
(without article)		nominativecoolstercoolstecoolstescoolste
genitivecoolstencoolstercoolstencoolster
dativecoolstemcoolstercoolstemcoolsten
accusativecoolstencoolstecoolstescoolste
weak declension
(with definite article)		nominativeder coolstedie coolstedas coolstedie coolsten
genitivedes coolstender coolstendes coolstender coolsten
dativedem coolstender coolstendem coolstenden coolsten
accusativeden coolstendie coolstedas coolstedie coolsten
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		nominativeein coolstereine coolsteein coolstes(keine) coolsten
genitiveeines coolsteneiner coolsteneines coolsten(keiner) coolsten
dativeeinem coolsteneiner coolsteneinem coolsten(keinen) coolsten
accusativeeinen coolsteneine coolsteein coolstes(keine) coolsten

Further reading

  • “cool” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “cool” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “cool” in Duden online
  • “cool” in OpenThesaurus.de

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cool.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kul/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ul
  • Syllabification: cool

Adjective

cool (not comparable)

  1. (slang) cool (in its informal senses)
    Synonyms: świetny, wspaniały, znakomity

Declension

Indeclinable.

Further reading

  • cool in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • cool in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cool.

Adjective

cool m or f or n (indeclinable)

  1. cool

Declension
Declension of cool (invariable)
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite cool cool cool cool
definite — — — —
genitive/
dative 		indefinite cool cool cool cool
definite — — — —

Adverb

cool

  1. cool

Noun

cool n (uncountable)

  1. cool
declension of cool (singular only)
singular
n genderindefinite articulationdefinite articulation
nominative/accusative(un) coolcoolul
genitive/dative(unui) coolcoolului
vocativecoolule

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cool

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkul/ [ˈkul]
  • Rhymes: -ul

Adjective

cool (plural cools or cool)

  1. cool (in its informal sense)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Anagrams

  • loco

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English cool.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuːl/

Adjective

cool (comparative coolare, superlative coolast)

  1. cool! great!

Declension

Inflection of cool
IndefinitePositiveComparativeSuperlative2
Common singularcoolcoolarecoolast
Neuter singularcooltcoolarecoolast
Pluralcoolacoolarecoolast
Masculine plural3coolecoolarecoolast
DefinitePositiveComparativeSuperlative
Masculine singular1coolecoolarecoolaste
Allcoolacoolarecoolaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

Turkish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cool

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuːɫ/
  • Hyphenation: kul

Adjective

cool

  1. cool
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