OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 1834

cool

/kuːl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
fresco • friecito • friito
Of a mildly low temperature.
I like cool weather the most 'cause it's not too hot to wear a jacket but I won't be too cold in my shorts.
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…
frío
Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
Linen has made cool and breathable clothing for millennia.
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…
sereno • tranquilo
Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
Be cool. There's no need to panic.
apacible
Unenthusiastic; lukewarm; skeptical.
His proposals had a cool reception.
bacán • chévere • cool • estupendo • genial • guay
Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by others.
Maggie the au pair, and Pam P. on the school bus and Billy G. with his Grateful Dead records were all deeply cool people. But they weren’t cool because they smoked. They smoked bec…
[…] while the coachman holding whip and reins in one hand, takes off his hat with the other, and resting it on his knees, pulls out his handkerchief, and wipes his forehead, partly…
bacano • bacán • bravazo • bárbaro • cachilupi • chido • chilero • chilo • chiva • chivo • choro • chévere • cool • cul • dabute • dabuten • fetén • fino • guay • lindo • machete • mostro • nota • padre • paja • pavo • piola • pulento • pura vida • shido • suave • supicucu • supicucú • tuani • tuanis
Fashionable; trendy; hip.
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 bothe…