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cool-headed

[ kool-hed-id ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

First recorded in 1770–80

Eighteen months ago, I was in a similar situation and had the opportunity to act like a cool-headed adult—but failed miserably.

Wilson Lamb flattered himself on being pretty cool headed under all circumstances.

Here was food enough to fire the blood of a cool-headed Yankee, let alone that of a mad Irishman.

Sheep are cool-headed fellows, as well befits those who are intimately associated with precipices.

He saw the need of keeping cool headed and clean handed, with an eye always to the main issue.

He posted a number of reliable, cool-headed men around the "meetinghouse," many of them being armed.

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