cool colors, such as white and blue, give an idea
of cold instead of heat
impressive because of being fashionable or
attractive
used for agreeing to something or saying that
something would be convenient
calm and relaxed, nonchalant
not friendly or enthusiastic
used with an amount of money for emphasizing how
large it is
used for emphasizing how good something is
Seems like in their verbal laziness, people of
all ages -- adolescents in particular -- have become
habituated to using the word cool in sense 10
above for describing everything that meets with their
approval. That
has become quite tiresome, I think.
During the '90s, the Bicycle
History Museum occasionally gave me an
opportunity to conduct tours of the various
exhibits. I took to handing teenagers four
quarters at the door as a gift -- with the proviso that
they must pay me twenty-five cents for each time they
said "cool."
Those who went home with coins jingling in their pockets
and purses typically substituted only one word from this
list of nearly a hundred for expressing their
observations...
Seems like in their verbal laziness, people of
all ages -- adolescents in particular -- have become
habituated to using the word cool in sense 10
above for describing everything that meets with their
approval. That
has become quite tiresome, I think.