qewl

qewl is the rare form of cool.

Meaning of cool

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

Antonyms:

lukewarm, tepid, warm
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.
Synonyms:

chilly, lukewarm, tepid

Antonyms:

warm
(obsolete) 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

qewl (plural qewls)

A Yazidi hymn.
- In Kurmanji, the dialect spoken by most Yezidis and northern Kurds, the holiest of hymns is a qewl.2017 September 13, Alex Cuadros, “Songs from Sinjar”, in Lapham’s Quarterly, retrieved 03 Jul 2020

plural	qewls

Sensational spelling.

From Northern Kurdish qewl (“word, speech”), from Arabic قول (qawl).

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