kool
kool is the deliberate misspelling 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
Verb
kool (third-person singular simple present kools, present participle kooling, simple past and past participle kooled)
- To look; to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
- Now kool my downy kicksies—the style for me, / Built on a plan werry naughty,c. 1864, Alfred Peck Stevens, “The Chickaleary Cove”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 161
- We had not been engaged in our reading very long when at the far end of the arch I noticed a twinkling light. "Kool esclop!" shouted one of the boys, at the same moment doucing the glim and bolting with his companion, leaving me in the dark with my upset beer bottle and my douced candle, forming a...1903 October, Rev. Arthur Tappan Pierson, quoting Hogg, Quintin, “Quintin Hogg and the London Polytechnic”, in Missionary Review of the World, volume 26, number 16, page 734
- Synonyms:
- look
Proper noun capitalized: Kool
Kool (plural Kools)
- A surname from Dutch.
Synonyms of kool
Forms of kool
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | kooler |
| superlative | koolest |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | kools |
| present participle | kooling |
| past participle | kooled |
| past | kooled |
| alternative form | cool |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Kools |
Origin of kool
Back slang for look.
Borrowed from Dutch Kool, shortened from Nikolaas, the Dutch form of Nicholas.
Words formed from kool
Phrases with kool
Questions about kool
- What does kool mean?
- Kool means to look; to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
- What is kool the deliberate misspelling of?
- Kool is the deliberate misspelling of cool.
- What part of speech is kool?
- Kool can be a verb or a proper noun.
- What is the past tense of kool?
- The past tense of kool is kooled.
Words near kool in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: kool (page history and authors); Kool (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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