collected

[Col*lect·ed]

Use the adjective collected to describe a person who stays cool and calm, even under pressure.

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Gathered together.

Adjective S.
in full control of your faculties; "the witness remained collected throughout the cross-examination"; "perfectly poised and sure of himself"; "more self-contained and more dependable than many of the early frontiersmen"; "strong and self-possessed in the

Adjective S.
brought together into a group or crowd; "the accumulated letters in my office"

Adjective
brought together in one place; "the collected works of Milton"; "the gathered folds of the skirt"


imp. & p. p.
of Collect

a.
Gathered together.

a.
Self-possessed; calm; composed.


Collected

Col*lect"ed , a. 1. Gathered together. 2. Self-possessed; calm; composed.

Gathered together.

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Usage Examples

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

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