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🆒 Fashionable 👍 Good or fine 🌬️ Pleasantly not warm 😎 Calm and steady ❄️ To lower temperature 🧊 To lose passion 🥶 Not friendly 🌄 Refreshing air 😎 Calmness 🎨 Blue or green 💰 Large amount
to cool

to cool

146 4.1
To become less strong in feeling or interest
  • verb
  • /kuːl/
translation icon : calmarse
  • After the argument, she needed some time alone to cool off.
  • cooled considerably
  • passions have cooled
  • relations have cooled

So I think that the the romance marriage cools down though.

Examples

Synonyms

to cool down
vsto cool
  • Informal
19 2.5

Feel less angry or excited

is a general drop in intensity of feeling or enthusiasm
to cool off
vsto cool
4 4.9

To become less interested in a person or thing

describes a general lessening of passion rather than specific affection
to start to fizzle
vsto cool
4.8

To lose energy or interest slowly until it fades

means a simple reduction not necessarily slow or gradual

Antonyms

increase
524 1.0

The extra amount added to something to make it larger

to intensify
110 4.0

Make something stronger or more intense

Idioms

to keep one's cool
  • Informal
30 3.4

Stay calm and control your feelings when things are hard

to keep a cool head
3 3.9

Stay calm and not get angry or excited in a difficult situation

to cool one's heels
  • Archaic
3 7.9

To wait somewhere for a long time feeling impatient

too cool for school
  • Slang
1 9.1

Being very confident and stylish in a way that seems unfriendly

as cool as a cucumber
  • Informal
1 4.1

Calm and not nervous even in a difficult situation

before it was cool
  • Informal
8.6

To do or like something before it becomes popular

cool story bro
  • Offensive
9.9

A mocking reply that shows you think a story is boring or not important

to lose one's cool
  • Informal
5.9

To suddenly become very angry and fail to control your feelings

Phrasal Verbs

to cool it
  • Informal
55 6.2

To calm down and stop being angry or excited

to cool off
50 2.7

To become calmer, less angry, or less hot

to cool down
28 1.1

Become less hot or make something less hot

to play it cool
  • Informal
27 4.5

Act calm and relaxed to hide nervousness

to cool down
  • Informal
19 2.5

Feel less angry or excited

to cool off
4 4.9

To become less interested in a person or thing

Compounds

cool head
8 4.1

Staying calm and not getting upset in difficult or stressful situations

cool cat
  • Archaic
4 8.4

A person who is stylish, confident, and relaxed

cool jazz
1 4.5

A relaxed style of jazz with slow beats and smooth, calm solos

cool demeanor
1 4.1

A calm, steady way of behaving when things are stressful

cool-white
  • Specialized
1 4.9

White light or paint with a slight blue tint that looks cold

effortlessly cool
1 7.9

Appearing stylish and attractive without trying

ice cool
  • Informal
1 6.2

Very calm and not nervous in a difficult situation

cool hunter
  • Jargon
8.1

A person who finds new styles in fashion and culture likely to become popular

cool medium
  • Formal
8.1

A medium that gives little detail so people must fill in parts, like television or cartoons

cool and stylish
  • Slang
3.4

Looking fashionable and attractive in a way people admire

How Calm

to calm down
  • Informal
594 1.4
to subside
47 4.8
to cool
146 4.1
to die down
46 2.7

Surface Forms

cool infinitive
cooled past
cooled past participle
cooling present participle
cools third person singular

Etymology

Cool meaning to become less excited comes from the temperature verb cool (to make less hot), so feelings or interest can 'cool' and become weaker or less intense.