Meanings
comparative more cooling · superlative most cooling
- That cools.
Synonyms: frigorific
- AsiaOf food or medicine, according to traditional Chinese medicine: serving to cool or calm the body.
Steamed fish and chicken and vegetable soup and even mushrooms are considered cooling foods, edible materializations of the yang, the pure primal air. The yin, or earth element, inheres in fried dishes and especially in shark's fin soup. Am I right, Mr Lee?
1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy; 1), London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 187Antonyms: heaty
plural coolings
- countableA decrease in temperature.
- uncountableRefrigeration.
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of cool
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveThat cools.
adjectiveOf food or medicine, according to traditional Chinese medicine: serving to cool or calm the body.
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
By surface analysis, cool + -ing.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian охлаждане
- охлаждане (ohlaždane)refrigeration
Catalan refredament, refredament
- refredamentdecrease in temperature
- refredamentrefrigeration
Chinese Mandarin 冷卻 /冷却
- 冷卻 /冷却 (lěngquè)refrigeration
Czech chlazení
- chlazenírefrigeration
Esperanto malvarmiĝanta
- malvarmiĝantathat cools
Finnish viilentävä, jäähdyttävä
- viilentäväthat cools
- jäähdyttäväthat cools
- jäähtyminendecrease in temperature
- viilentyminendecrease in temperature
- jäähdyttäminenrefrigeration
- viilentäminenrefrigeration
French refroidissement, refroidissement
- refroidissementdecrease in temperature
- refroidissementrefrigeration
German Kühlung
- Kühlungrefrigeration
Hebrew קירור
- קירור (qirur)refrigeration
Hungarian hűtő, lehűtő
- hűtőthat cools
- lehűtőthat cools
- hűsítőthat cools
- hűlőthat cools
- lehűlőthat cools
- hűlésdecrease in temperature
- lehűlésdecrease in temperature
- hűtésrefrigeration
- lehűtésrefrigeration
Irish fuarú
- fuarúdecrease in temperature
Italian rinfrescante, raffreddamento
- rinfrescantethat cools
- raffreddamentodecrease in temperature
- raffreddamentorefrigeration
Japanese 冷却
- 冷却 (reikyaku)refrigeration
Korean 냉각, 랭각
- 냉각 (naenggak)refrigeration
- 랭각 (raenggak)refrigeration
Norwegian Bokmål kjøling, avkjøling
- kjølingdecrease in temperature
- avkjølingdecrease in temperature
Polish ochłodzenie, chłodzenie
- ochłodzeniedecrease in temperature
- chłodzenierefrigeration
Portuguese refrigerante, arrefecimento
- refrigerantethat cools
- arrefecimentorefrigeration
- refrigeraçãorefrigeration
Russian охлажда́ющий, похолода́ние
- охлажда́ющий (oxlaždájuščij)that cools
- похолода́ние (poxolodánije)decrease in temperature
- охлажде́ние (oxlaždénije)decrease in temperature
- охлажде́ние (oxlaždénije)refrigeration
Slovak chladiaci, ochladenie
- chladiacithat cools
- ochladeniedecrease in temperature
- chladnutiedecrease in temperature
- chladenierefrigeration
Spanish refrigerante, enfriamiento
- refrigerantethat cools
- enfriamientodecrease in temperature
- enfriamientorefrigeration
Swedish avkylning
- avkylningrefrigeration
Ukrainian охоло́джувальний, охоло́дження
- охоло́джувальний (oxolódžuvalʹnyj)that cools
- охоло́дження (oxolódžennja)refrigeration
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with cooling
All rhymes →Cite this entry
cooling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cooling
“cooling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cooling. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cooling,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cooling.
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