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EQUANIMOUS

• EQUANIMOUS (adjective)
The adjective EQUANIMOUS has 1 sense:

1. in full control of your faculties

Familiarity information: EQUANIMOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

• EQUANIMOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

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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)

"Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies."
(English proverb)
"There is no household without domestic fight"
(Breton proverb)
"Lying is the disease and truth is the cure"
(Arabic proverb)
"If you own two houses, it's raining in one of them."
(Corsican proverb)

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