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The Collaborative International Dictionary
coolheaded

cool-headed \cool"-head`ed\, coolheaded \cool"head*ed\, a. Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion; unshakably calm and collected. -- Cool"-head`ed*ness, n.

Syn: cool, imperturbable, unflappable.

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coolheaded

a. Having an even temper; calm and collected

WordNet
coolheaded

adj. marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional; "play it cool"; "keep cool"; "stayed coolheaded in the crisis"; "the most nerveless winner in the history of the tournament" [syn: cool, nerveless]

Usage examples of "coolheaded".

With any luck, he would choose to approach the coming confrontation in a rational, coolheaded manner.

I knew you would he too clever, too perceptive, too coolheaded, too intelligent to do anything rash until you had investigated the matter thoroughly.

While he wasn't like his superior, Landreau, who blustered when angry, Rogitel was coolheaded and very quiet, a dangerously misleading trait, which tempted the unwary to talk in his presence under the delusion that he wasn't listening.

We proved once more what we had proved so often before, that all valour and all discipline will not avail in a frontal attack against brave coolheaded men armed with quick-firing rifles.

He was every inch the man she'd waited so long for, and now knew she loved--principled, self-sacrificing, brave and coolheaded in the face of danger.

No matter how well-trained one is, how careful, how coolheaded, the odds regularly build up over the years.