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coolheaded

coolheaded adjective: having an even temper; calm and collected.

Adjective

coolheaded (comparative more coolheaded, superlative most coolheaded)

  1. Having an even temper; calm and collected
    • There had been none among them coolheaded enough to reason out which trail he had likely taken, and thus look for him by the ford.1921, Edison Marshall, “The Heart of Little Shikara”, in O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
    • The heated rhetoric masked a more coolheaded strategy.1996 August 30, Jeffrey Felshman, “How to Win Enemies and Influence People”, in Chicago Reader

Antonyms of coolheaded

Forms of coolheaded

comparativemore coolheaded
superlativemost coolheaded

Origin of coolheaded

From cool + headed, thus "having a cool head."

Words formed from coolheaded

Questions about coolheaded

What does coolheaded mean?
Coolheaded means having an even temper; calm and collected.
What part of speech is coolheaded?
Coolheaded is an adjective.

Words near coolheaded in the dictionary

  1. Cooleys Creek
  2. Coolgardie
  3. Coolgardie safe
  4. Coolgardie safes
  5. coolgardite
  6. coolheaded
  7. coolheadedly
  8. coolheadedness
  9. coolhouse
  10. coolhouses
  11. coolhunter

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