kewl
/kuːl/
kewl is the nonstandard spelling of cool.
Meaning of cool
Adjective
cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolest)
- Of a mildly low temperature.
- I like cool weather the most 'cause it's not too hot to wear a jacket but I won't be too cold in my shorts.
- Synonyms:
- chilly
- Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
- Linen has made cool and breathable clothing for millennia.
- Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
- If you have a reddish complexion, you should mainly wear cool colors.
- Antonyms:
- warm
- Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
- Be cool. There's no need to panic.
- Synonyms:
- distant, phlegmatic, standoffish, unemotional
- Antonyms:
- passionate
- Unenthusiastic; lukewarm; skeptical.
- His proposals had a cool reception.
- Antonyms:
- warm
- Calmly audacious.
- Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Hester at her Needle”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC
Forms of kewl
| comparative | kewler |
|---|---|
| superlative | kewlest |
Origin of kewl
Respelling of cool to represent a pronunciation with fronting of /u/ to [ʉ], which is characteristic of California English among other accents.
Words formed from kewl
Words that rhyme with kewl
42 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- ghoul
- spool
- doole
- pule
- yule
- buhl
- huemul
- Juul
- misrule
- poule
- rocking stool
- you'll
- 6-2-1 rule
- adverse interest rule
- aemule
- babul
- befool
- bool
- cagoule
- crool
- emule
- firefighter's rule
- gigajoule
- grool
- gule
- hool
- hydrocool
- joule
- kilojoule
- megajoule
- mewl
- pasta fazool
- petajoule
- retool
- shul
- snool
- sool
- terajoule
- torchecul
- tulle
- uncool
- yottajoule
Questions about kewl
- What is kewl the nonstandard spelling of?
- Kewl is the nonstandard spelling of cool.
- How do you pronounce kewl?
- Kewl is pronounced /kuːl/.
Words near kewl in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: kewl (page history and authors); cool (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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