coolheaded

adj

Etymology

From cool + headed, thus "having a cool head."

  1. inherited from *káput✻ — “head”
  2. inherited from *haubudą✻ — “head”
  3. inherited from *haubud✻
  4. inherited from hēafod — “head; top; leader; origin”
  5. inherited from efd
  6. suffixed as headed — “head + ed”
  7. compounded as coolheaded — “cool + headed”

Definitions

  1. Having an even temper

    Having an even temper; calm and collected

    • There had been none among them coolheaded enough to reason out which trail he had likely taken, and thus look for him by the ford.
    • The heated rhetoric masked a more coolheaded strategy.
    • Some essays are coolheaded, some shake with hysteria, some are memoirish, others didactic.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA