“cooled” is a form of
cool
UK /kuːl/ · US /kul/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun
Forms cooler coolest cools cooling cooled c00l k00l kewl kool qewl qool coo coole
- adjective 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.”
- adjective Allowing or suggesting heat relief. “Linen has made cool and breathable clothing for millennia.”
- adjective Of a color, in the range of violet to green. “If you have a reddish complexion, you should mainly wear cool colors.”
- adjective (of a person) Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself. “Be cool. There's no need to panic.”
- adjective Unenthusiastic; lukewarm; skeptical. “His proposals had a cool reception.”
- adjective (obsolete) Calmly audacious.
- adjective Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
- adjective (informal, of a person) Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by others.
- noun A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness. “in the cool of the morning”
- noun A calm temperament.
- noun The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.
- verb (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.”
- verb (transitive, literally) To make cooler, less warm.
- verb (intransitive, figuratively) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate. “Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.”
- verb (transitive, figuratively) To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
- verb (transitive, slang, dated) To kill, murder.
- verb (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To relax, hang out.
- noun (chiefly Ireland, now rare) A measure of butter, usually around 40lb; a container holding such an amount of butter.
- proper noun A surname.
- proper noun A town in El Dorado County, California, United States; named for preacher Aaron Cool.
Synonyms
chilly distant phlegmatic standoffish unemotional lukewarm tepid à la mode fashionable in fashion modish stylish happening hip in trendy acceptable all right OK awesome aplomb assuredness poise sang-froid chill cool down cool off coolheaded nerveless
Antonyms
lukewarm tepid warm passionate awkward uncool démodé old hat out out of fashion not cricket not on heat
Etymology
From Middle English cool, from Old English cōl (“cool, cold, tranquil, calm”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōl(ī), from Proto-Germanic *kōluz (“cool”), from *kalaną (“to be cold, to freeze”), Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold, to freeze”).
Cognate with North Frisian kool, koul, kuul, kölj, kööl (“cold”), Saterland Frisian köil (“cool”), West Frisian koel (“cool”), Cimbrian khuul (“chilly, cool”), Dutch koel (“cool”), German kühl (“cool”), Low German köhl (“cool”), Luxembourgish kill (“cool”), Vilamovian kił (“cool”); also Latin gelū, gelum, gelus (“frost; chill, cold”), Belarusian хо́лад (xólad, “cold”), Bulgarian хлад (hlad, “chill, coolness”), Czech chlad (“cold”), Macedonian лад (lad, “shade; coolness”), Polish chłód (“cold”), Russian and Ukrainian хо́лод (xólod, “cold”), Serbo-Croatian хла̑д, hlȃd (“shade”), Sanskrit जड (jaḍa, “cold; stiff”), जल (jala, “water”). Related to cold.
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.
Alteration of cowl.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.
- adjective Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater.
- noun A moderate state of cold; coolness; --said of the temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.
- verb To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water.
Etymology [AS. col; akin to D. koel, G. kühl, OHG. chouli, Dan. kölig, Sw. kylig, also to AS. calan to be cold, Icel. kala. See Cold, and cf. Chill.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “cool”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details