cool

  1. (acronym) .  (computing) '''CLIPS Object-Oriented Language'''.
  2. Adjective.  Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
  3. Adjective.  Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
  4. Adjective.  Of a person, not showing emotion, calm and in self-control.
  5. Adjective.  Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.
  6. Adjective.  Calmly audacious.
  7. Adjective.  (informal) Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.
  8. Adjective.  (informal) In fashion, part of or fitting the in-crowd, originally hipster slang.
  9. Adjective.  (informal) Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.
  10. Adjective.  (informal) Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting.
  11. Noun.  A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
  12. Verb.  (literally) (intransitive) To lose heat, to get colder.
  13. Verb.  (transitive) To make cooler, less warm.
  14. Verb.  (figuratively) (intransitive) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable.
  15. Verb.  (transitive) To make less intense, e.g. less amicable.

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