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COLLECTED

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Dictionary entry overview: What does collected mean?

• COLLECTED (adjective)
The adjective COLLECTED has 3 senses:

1. brought together in one place
2. brought together into a group or crowd
3. in full control of your faculties

Familiarity information: COLLECTED used as an adjective is uncommon.

Dictionary entry details

• COLLECTED (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Brought together in one place

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Synonyms:

collected; gathered

Context examples:

the collected works of Milton / the gathered folds of the skirt

Antonym:

uncollected (not brought together in one place)

Participle:

collect (assemble or get together)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Brought together into a group or crowd

Synonyms:

massed; congregate; assembled; amassed; accumulated; collected

Context example:

the accumulated letters in my office

Similar:

concentrated (gathered together or made less diffuse)

Sense 3

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Meaning:

In full control of your faculties

Synonyms:

equanimous; self-collected; self-possessed; poised; self-contained; collected

Context examples:

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

Similar:

composed (serenely self-possessed and free from agitation especially in times of stress)

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