Adjective

(er)

Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=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, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:

Allowing or suggesting heat relief.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=2 citation , passage=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 a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}

Of a person, not showing emotion, calm and in self-control.

Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.

Calmly audacious.

* (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)

Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.

* 1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:

My father was talking to the World's Fair Commission yesterday, and they estimate it's going to cost a cool fifty million.

(label) Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.

(label) In fashion, part of or fitting the in crowd; originally hipster slang.

* 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 bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.

(label) Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.

(label) A dismissal of a comment perceived as boring or pointless.

(label) Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting.

* (Henry Fielding) (1707-1754)

He had lost a cool hundred.

* (Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)

leaving a cool four thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket

Adjective

(er)

(obsolete) Silly, ignorant; foolish.

*, II.2:

There is nothing he seemed to be more carefull of than of his honesty, and observe a kinde of decencie of his person, and orderly decorum in his habits, were it on foot or on horsebacke. He was exceeding nice in performing his word or promise.

* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating (Sigmund Freud), (The Interpretation of Dreams) , Oxford 2008, p.83:

But if I dispense with the dreams of neurotics, my main material, I cannot be too nice in my dealings with the remainder.

(obsolete) Particular as regards rules or qualities; strict.

* 1818 , (Jane Austen), (Persuasion) :

Good company requires only birth, education and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice . Birth and good manners are essential.

Showing]] or [[require, requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.

* 1914 : (Saki), :

"It's her own funeral, you know," said Sir Lulworth; "it's a nice point in etiquette how far one ought to show respect to one's own mortal remains."

* 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p.131:

It would be a nice theological point to try and establish whether Ophis os Moslem or gnostic.

* 2006 , (Clive James), North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p.242:

Why it should have attained such longevity is a nice question.

(obsolete) Doubtful, as to the outcome; risky.

* 1598 , (William Shakespeare), , IV.1:

To set so rich a maine / On the nice hazard of one doubtfull houre? It were not good.

* 1822 , T. Creevey, Reminiscences , 28 Jul.:

It has been a damned nice thing - the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life.

Respectable; virtuous.

Pleasant, satisfactory.

* 1998 , (Baha Men) -

When the party was nice , the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo)

* 2008 , Rachel Cooke, The Guardian , 20 Apr.:

"What's difficult is when you think someone is saying something nice about you, but you're not quite sure."

Of a person: friendly, attractive.

With "and", having intensive effect: extremely.

* , chapter=8

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.}}