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Coolest

Cool \Cool\, a. [Compar. Cooler; superl. Coolest.] [AS. c[=o]l; akin to D. koel, G. k["u]hl, OHG. chouli, Dan. k["o]lig, Sw. kylig, also to AS. calan to be cold, Icel. kala. See Cold, and cf. Chill.]

  1. Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.

    Fanned with cool winds.
    --Milton.

  2. Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater.

    For a patriot, too cool.
    --Goldsmith.

  3. Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.

  4. Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.

  5. Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.

    Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.
    --Hawthorne.

  6. Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.

    He had lost a cool hundred.
    --Fielding.

    Leaving a cool thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket.
    --Dickens.

    Syn: Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed; repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.

Wiktionary
coolest

a. (en-superlative of: cool)

Usage examples of "coolest".

Tests and what she should have done better, Marian bathed quickly but thoroughly in the coolest pool she had no wish to appear lobster-red before the menand dried and dressed in panties and robe.

I have always considered him the coolest and hardest head in business.

We also had a Super Nintendo, with the coolest game at the time, which was Street Fighter II.

Dad took her and carried her out of the orchard around the barn to the concrete grain storage, not because it was where Hub was living with Joon but because it was the coolest room on the place.

I took care not to offend her modesty, but in the coolest manner possible asked her how she felt a little lower down, and as I put the question I softly extended my hand.

The coolest cot in the dryest nook of the tent at night--the shadiest seat at the table by day--were always for his reverence!

He told me afterwards that, himself in a state of bewildered surprise, he thought me the coolest young person he had ever had the fortune to meet.

The coolest heads on both sides have realized that from the start, hence the reason why atomic weapons have been held back as long as possible.

They were the coolest, most matter-of-factly competent team he had ever met up with.