different between vague vs cool
vague
English
Etymology
From Middle French vague, from Latin vagus (“uncertain, vague”, literally “wandering, rambling, strolling”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ve??/
- IPA(key): (Upper Midwest US) /væ?/
- Rhymes: -e??, -æ?
Adjective
vague (comparative vaguer, superlative vaguest)
- Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms.
- 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
- Throughout the first week of his presidency, Dulles and Bissell continued to brief Kennedy on their strategy for Cuba, but the men were vague and their meetings offered little in the way of hard facts.
- inarticulate, Synonym: unclear; see also Thesaurus:incomprehensible
- 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
- Not having a precise meaning.
- Synonyms: ambiguous, equivocal
- Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight.
- Synonyms: ambiguous, equivocal, indistinct, obscure; see also Thesaurus:vague
- Not clearly felt or sensed; somewhat subconscious.
- Not thinking or expressing one’s thoughts clearly or precisely.
- 1962, Philip Larkin, "Toads Revisited"
- Waxed-fleshed out-patients / Still vague from accidents, / And characters in long coats / Deep in the litter-baskets […]
- Synonym: dazed
- 1962, Philip Larkin, "Toads Revisited"
- Lacking expression; vacant.
- Synonyms: vacant, vacuous
- Not sharply outlined; hazy.
- Synonyms: fuzzy, hazy, ill-defined; see also Thesaurus:indistinct
- Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.
- 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI
- The Lord Gray incourag'd his men to set sharply upon the vague villains
- Synonyms: erratic, roaming, unsettled, vagrant, vagabond
- 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI
Related terms
Translations
Noun
vague (plural vagues)
- (obsolete) A wandering; a vagary.
- An indefinite expanse.
- 1870, James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral
- The gray vague of unsympathizing sea.
- 1870, James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral
Verb
vague (third-person singular simple present vagues, present participle vaguing, simple past and past participle vagued)
- (archaic) to wander; to roam; to stray.
- 1603, Philemon Holland (translator), The Philosophie, commonly called, the Morals
- [The soul] doth vague and wander.
- 1603, Philemon Holland (translator), The Philosophie, commonly called, the Morals
- To become vague or act in a vague manner.
Further reading
- vague in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- vague in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- vague at OneLook Dictionary Search
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin vagus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /?va.??/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?ba.??/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?va.?e/
Adjective
vague (feminine vaga, masculine and feminine plural vagues)
- vague
Derived terms
- vagament
Further reading
- “vague” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “vague” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “vague” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “vague” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology 1
From Middle French [Term?], from Old French vague (“movement on the surface of a liquid, ripple”), from Old Norse vágr (“sea”), from Proto-Germanic *w?gaz (“wave, storm”), from Proto-Indo-European *we??- (“to drag, carry”). Cognate with Swedish våg (“wave”), Middle Dutch waeghe, wage (“wave”), Old High German w?ge (“wave”), Old English w?g (“wave, billow, motion, flood”). More at waw, wave.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va?/
Noun
vague f (plural vagues)
- wave
- 2014, Indila, Comme un bateau
- 2014, Indila, Comme un bateau
Derived terms
- faire des vagues
- vague de chaleur
- vague de froid
- vaguelette
- vaguette
Etymology 2
From Middle French vague, from Latin vagus (“uncertain, vague”, literally “wandering, rambling, strolling”). Possibly a doublet of gai.
Adjective
vague (plural vagues)
- vague
Noun
vague m (plural vagues)
- vagueness
- Synonym: distrait
Derived terms
- terrain vague
- vague à l'âme
- vaguement
Further reading
- “vague” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Verb
vague
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of vagar
Portuguese
Verb
vague
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of vagar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of vagar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of vagar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of vagar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ba?e/, [?ba.??e]
Verb
vague
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of vagar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of vagar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of vagar.
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cool
English
Alternative forms
- (slang) c00l, coo, k00l, kewl, kool, qewl, qool
Pronunciation
- enPR: ko?ol, IPA(key): /ku?l/
- Rhymes: -u?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English cool, from Old English c?l (“cool, cold, tranquil, calm”), from Proto-West Germanic *k?l(?), from Proto-Germanic *k?laz, *k?luz (“cool”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian köil (“cool”), West Frisian koel (“cool”), Dutch koel (“cool”), Limburgish kool (“cool”), German Low German köhl (“cool”), German kühl (“cool”). Related to cold.
Adjective
cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolest)
- Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
- Synonym: chilly
- Antonyms: lukewarm, tepid, warm
- Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
- Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
- Antonym: warm
- Of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
- Synonyms: distant, phlegmatic, standoffish, unemotional
- Antonym: passionate
- Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.
- Antonym: warm
- Calmly audacious.
- Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
- Who will lend me a cool hundred.
- 1900, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Transmigration
- You remember Bulger, don't you? You lost a cool hundred to him one night here over the cards, eh?
- 1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:
- My father was talking to the World's Fair Commission yesterday, and they estimate it's going to cost a cool fifty million.
- (informal) Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.
- Antonyms: awkward, uncool
- (informal) In fashion, part of or fitting the in crowd; originally hipster slang.
- Synonyms: à la mode, fashionable, in fashion, modish, stylish, happening, hip, in, trendy
- Antonyms: démodé, old hat, out, out of fashion
- 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
- The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.
- (informal) Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.
- Synonyms: acceptable, all right, OK
- Antonyms: (UK) not cricket, not on, unacceptable
- (informal) Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting.
- Synonyms: easy, fine, not bothered, not fussed
- Antonyms: bothered, upset
- Quietly impudent, defiant, or selfish; deliberately presuming: said of persons and acts.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Chinese: ?
- ? Dutch: cool
- ? French: cool
- ? German: cool
- ? Polish: cool
- ? Spanish: cool
- ? Swedish: cool
Translations
Noun
cool (uncountable)
- A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
- in the cool of the morning
- A calm temperament.
- Synonyms: calmness, composure
- The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English colen, from Old English c?lian (“to cool, grow cold, be cold”), from Proto-West Germanic *k?l?n (“to become cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to freeze”). Cognate with Dutch koelen (“to cool”), German kühlen (“to cool”), Swedish kyla (“to cool, refrigerate”). Also partially from Middle English kelen, from Old English c?lan (“to cool, be cold, become cold”), from Proto-Germanic *k?lijan? (“to cool”), altered to resemble the adjective cool. See keel.
Verb
cool (third-person singular simple present cools, present participle cooling, simple past and past participle cooled)
- (intransitive, literally) To lose heat, to get colder.
- I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue.
- (transitive) To make cooler, less warm.
- (figuratively, intransitive) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
- Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.
- (transitive) To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
- (transitive) To kill.
- 1965, "Sex Jungle" (narrated in Perversion for Profit)
- Maybe he would die. That would mean I had murdered him. I smiled, trying the idea on for size. One of the things that always had cheesed me a little was that I had no kills to my credit. I'd been in plenty of rumbles, but somehow, I'd never cooled anyone. Well maybe now I had my first one. I couldn't feel very proud of skulling an old man, but at least I could say that I'd scored. That was a big kick.
- 1965, "Sex Jungle" (narrated in Perversion for Profit)
Derived terms
Translations
References
- cool in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- cool at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Colo, Colo., colo, colo-, loco
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English cool. Doublet of koel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ku(?)l/
- Hyphenation: cool
- Rhymes: -ul
- Homophone: koel
Adjective
cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolst)
- cool, fashionable
Inflection
French
Etymology
From English cool.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kul/
- Homophones: coule, coules, coulent
Adjective
cool (invariable)
- cool (only its informal senses, mainly fashionable)
- Les jeunes sont cool.
- Young people are cool.
- Les jeunes boivent de l'alcool pour être cool.
- Young people drink alcohol to be cool.
- Les jeunes sont cool.
Interjection
cool
- cool! great!
Anagrams
- looc
German
Etymology
From English cool, from Proto-Germanic *k?laz. Doublet of kühl.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ku?l]
Adjective
cool (comparative cooler, superlative am coolsten)
- (colloquial) cool (in its informal senses)
- Synonyms: brilliant, genial, geil
- (colloquial) cool, calm, easy-going
- Synonyms: lässig, ruhig
Declension
Further reading
- “cool” in Duden online
Polish
Etymology
From English cool.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kul/
Adjective
cool (not comparable)
- (slang) cool (in its informal senses)
- Synonyms: ?wietny, wspania?y, znakomity
Declension
Indeclinable.
Further reading
- cool in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- cool in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English cool
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kul/, [?kul]
Adjective
cool (plural cools or cool)
- cool (in its informal sense)
Anagrams
- loco
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English cool.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ku?l/
Adjective
cool (comparative coolare, superlative coolast)
- cool! great!
Declension
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