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