Cool
Cool verb - To cause to lose heat.
Scare
Scare verb - To strike with fear.
How words are described
| good | good cool | good scare |
| effective | effective cool | effective scare |
| actual | actual cool | actual scare |
| real | real cool | real scare |
| Other adjectives: great, serious, bad, false, major, minor, next, scary, different. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Bunji soon loses his cool, but he just snaps at her and fires some misdirected shots to scare her.
Source: Hitman with a Heart -
In The Simpsons episode "Homer's Phobia", John has a "creepy-cool robot Santa" (as Bart describes it) from Japan, that he later uses to scare off the reindeer beating up Homer.
Source: Bad Santa -
Cool Old Guy: In flashbacks, Grandad Nawi, who, in spite of a crippled leg, was the best hunter and fisherman in the Nation, and knew a magic word to scare sharks away.
Source: Literature / Nation
Cite this Source
Scare and Cool. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cool/scare
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Scare or Cool. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cool/scare.
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