Tuesday, February 10, 2009

What is cool? - What does cool mean to you.

Cool is a word that is situational, individual, and impossible to expressed simply.

What makes someone or something cool, who and what are cool? Is it that motorcycle you ride? Or the model airplanes you made as a kid? Do you think the Fonz was cool? Was it his bike that made him cool, or was it his attitude?

Tell me what you think in responses to this blog. You don't need to include your name, but include your age for a reference.

cool [kool] adjective, -er, -est, adverb, noun, verb
–adjective
1. moderately cold; neither warm nor cold: a rather cool evening.
2. feeling comfortably or moderately cold: I'm perfectly cool, but open the window if you feel hot. 3. imparting a sensation of moderate coldness or comfortable freedom from heat: a cool breeze.
4. permitting such a sensation: a cool dress.
5. not excited; calm; composed; under control: to remain cool in the face of disaster.
6. not hasty; deliberate: a cool and calculated action.
7. lacking in interest or enthusiasm: a cool reply to an invitation.
8. lacking in warmth or cordiality: a cool reception.
9. calmly audacious or impudent: a cool lie.
10. aloof or unresponsive; indifferent: He was cool to her passionate advances.
11. unaffected by emotions; disinterested; dispassionate: She made a cool appraisal of all the issues in the dispute.
12. Informal. (of a number or sum) without exaggeration or qualification: a cool million dollars.
13. (of colors) with green, blue, or violet predominating.
14. Slang.
a.great; fine; excellent: a real cool comic.
b.characterized by great facility; highly skilled or clever: cool maneuvers on the parallel bars.
c.socially adept: It's not cool to arrive at a party too early. –adverb
15. Informal. coolly.–noun
16. something that is cool; a cool part, place, time, etc.: in the cool of the evening.
17. coolness.
18. calmness; composure; poise: an executive noted for maintaining her cool under pressure. –verb (used without object)
19. to become cool (sometimes fol. by down or off): The soup cooled in five minutes. We cooled off in the mountain stream.
20. to become less ardent, cordial, etc.; become moderate.–verb (used with object)
21. to make cool; impart a sensation of coolness to.
22. to lessen the ardor or intensity of; allay; calm; moderate: Disappointment cooled his early zealousness.

—Verb phrases
23. cool down, to bring the body back to its normal physiological level after fast, vigorous exercise or activity by gradually slowing the pace of activity or by doing gentle exercises or stretches.
24. cool off, Informal. to become calmer or more reasonable: Wait until he cools off before you talk to him again.
25. cool out, Slang. to calm or settle down; relax: cooling out at the beach. —Idioms
26. blow one's cool.

27. cool it, Slang. calm down; take it easy.
28. cool one's heels.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Class = Cool. Without a level of class,there is no way to be cool.

Anonymous said...

Spontaneously i would say, cool to me means is accepting our bizarreness and feeling comfortable with that, making the other people feeling glad seeing someone/something different, being cool is feeling comfortable without trying to follow a model that would be supposed to make us "cool", it's being what we want to be without having the conscious of what we are, we're not supposed to know we're "cool" otherwise we start to think about it and it makes it less natural and less spontaneous ... that would be long to explain, but that's most of my current thoughts about the word "cool"
N.K.H
19 years old