cool
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When cool helps
Base Score
1
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
3
C L O
Two-Letter Start
CO
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
OL
Check this pattern late
- 4 letters
- 3 unique letters
- CO start
- OL ending
- repeated letters
Try it when
- cool is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 3 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include c, l, o plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (O x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The OL ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the CO start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 2 published Daily snapshots.
Pronunciation
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.
adjective
Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
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.
adjective
Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.
"His proposals had a cool reception."
adjective
Calmly audacious.
"In control as always, he came up with a cool plan."
adjective
Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
adjective
Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.
adjective
In fashion, part of or fitting the in crowd; originally hipster slang.
adjective
Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.
"Is it cool if I sleep here tonight?"
adjective
Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting.
"I'm completely cool with my girlfriend leaving me."
adjective
Quietly impudent, defiant, or selfish; deliberately presuming: said of persons and acts.
verb
To lose heat, to get colder.
"I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue."
verb
To make cooler, less warm.
verb
To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
"Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980."
verb
To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
verb
To kill.