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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. in full control of your faculties;
- Example: "the witness remained collected throughout the cross-examination"
- Example: "perfectly poised and sure of himself"
- Example: "more self-contained and more dependable than many of the early frontiersmen"
- Example: "strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble"
[syn: collected, equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Self-possessed \Self"-pos*sessed"\, a. Composed or tranquil in mind, manner, etc.; undisturbed. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

self-possessed adj 1: 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" [syn: collected, equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed]