Qualities
Synonyms for cool
Synonyms for cool: poise and chill. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for cool
Interchangeable with cool in this sense
Audited under cool's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one cool carries in that sense.
- poisenoun, in the sense "great coolness and composure under strain"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name cool as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- chillchill is a verb in the sense "make cool or cooler"
The first group is filed under cool's own sense. The second reaches cool from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
great coolness and composure under strain
Keep your cool.
The true synonym
poise
Same sentence, swapped: Keep your poise.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- quiet
- rest
- boss
Where cool turns up in the game
cool is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where cool is the trap
- hinderadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is back, in the sense "located at or near the back of an animal", with cool sitting one tile away.
- firmadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is immobile, in the sense "securely fixed in place", so cool is there to be ruled out.
- bossnoun, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is hirer, in the sense "a person responsible for hiring workers", and cool is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play cool
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so cool reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. cool carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.