Synonyms:
collected, equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed
Meaning: 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 face of trouble"
Synonyms:
collected, gathered
Meaning: brought together in one place; "the collected works of Milton"; "the gathered folds of the skirt"
Usage examples
A crowd instantly collected.
Liveried coachmen collected our baggage.
Then the bystanders collected about the two.
Olmstead, who collected these lost souls, says:
It was here that Charles I. had collected his forces.
Again a subscription was collected and a monument was erected in her honor.
He was used to being pulled out to perform whenever a crowd could be collected.
After a while she collected her books again, and tried to study as Cousin Helen had advised.
The disaffected of Massachusetts had collected a large quantity of military stores at Concord.
Ethelwyn smiled.--She was now as collected as I was, seeming to have cast off all her weakness.