adj
Meaning 1
Coolish; somewhat cool in temperature.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
coolly
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈkuːl.li/
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[ˈkuwɫ.li]
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/ˈkuːli/
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[ˈkʉː.li]
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rhymes with -uːli
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homophone: coolie
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homophone: coulee
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homophone: coulis (second pronunciation)
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CMU ARPABET: K UW1 L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
At a moderately low temperature.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The wind blew coolly.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 3
In a cool, unpanicked or collected manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 4
With calm impudence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- They walked in, not even wearing masks, and coolly robbed the bank of twelve thousand pounds.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 5
in a composed and unconcerned manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- without more ado Barker borrowed a knife from his brigade Major and honed it on a carborundum stone as coolly as a butcher
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nervelessly, nonchalantly
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English cool Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -ly English -ly English coolly From cool + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Etymology tree English cool Middle English -ly English -ly English coolly From cool + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Esperanto: malvarme — at a moderately low temperature
- Dutch: koel — In a cool, unpanicked or collected manner.
- Dutch: koeltjes — In a cool, unpanicked or collected manner.
- Dutch: koelweg — In a cool, unpanicked or collected manner.
- Dutch: kalmweg — In a cool, unpanicked or collected manner.
- Dutch: kalmpjes — In a cool, unpanicked or collected manner.
- Esperanto: malvarme — In a cool, unpanicked or collected manner.
- Esperanto: mojose — In a cool, unpanicked or collected manner.
- Serbo-Croatian: nehajno — In a cool, unpanicked or collected manner.
- Swedish: kyligt — In a cool, unpanicked or collected manner.
- Ukrainian: кру́то (krúto) — In a cool, unpanicked or collected manner.