coolish
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- adjective
- /ˈkuːlɪʃ/
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- But there was something special about the difference between the coolish twilight where she and her sisters stood clustered on those summer evenings and the hot, lighted world of the houses they peered into, which thrilled them.
Examples
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David makes several stops before he locates a store with an ancient refrigerator and coolish bottles of Three Horse Beer.
Academic text (2008) -
She walked through the coolish air.
Fiction book (1993) -
I love this gloss has like a really pretty coolish undertone to it.
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The coolish, moist breeze tickles the backs of her knees and the calves of her legs.
Fiction book (2002) -
Crunchiness is also caused by things drying too quickly with too little movement, so coolish days with a nice breeze will give you softer clothes than a hot, windless day.
Blog text (23) -
On a coolish afternoon, we decided to take a walk in the park.
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She wore a light jacket because the weather felt coolish for summer.
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The coolish breeze made the hot day much more pleasant.
Synonyms
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A fairly low temperature that feels pleasant
Antonyms
How Cool
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Coolish starts with cool, which means 'not hot' or 'calm', and adds the ending -ish, which means 'somewhat' (like in childish or greenish). So coolish means 'somewhat cool' in temperature or in manner.