coolish

Variant of cool

adjective

  1. moderately cold; neither warm nor very cold
  2. tending to reduce discomfort in warm or hot weather: cool clothes
    1. not excited; calm; composed: cool in an emergency
    2. ☆ marked by control of the emotions; restrained: cool jazz
    3. Slang emotionally uninvolved; uncommitted; dispassionate
  3. showing dislike or indifference; not cordial: a cool manner
  4. calmly impudent or bold
  5. not suggesting warmth: said of colors in the blue-green end of the spectrum
  6. Informal without exaggeration: he won a cool thousand dollars
  7. Slang very good, pleasing, etc.; excellent

Origin: ME & OE col < IE base *gel-, cold, to freeze > chill, cold, L gelu

adverb

in a cool manner

noun

  1. a cool place, time, thing, part, etc.: the cool of the evening
  2. Slang cool, dispassionate attitude or manner

intransitive verb

to become cool or colder

Origin: ME colien < OE colian, to cool

transitive verb

to make cool or colder

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