collected

[kuh-lek-tid]

adjective

1. having control of one's faculties; self-possessed.

   Despite all the turmoil around him, Bob remained calm and collected.

2. brought or placed together; forming an aggregation from various sources.

   the money collected to build an orphanage; the collected essays of Thoreau.

3. Manège.

   1. (of a moving horse) noting a compact pose in which the legs are well under the body, the head is arched at the poll, the jaw is relaxed, etc.

   2. (of a gait of such a horse) characterized by short, elevated strides.

collected

/ kəˈlɛktɪd /

adjective

1. in full control of one's faculties; composed

2. assembled in totality or brought together into one volume or a set of volumes

   the collected works of Dickens

3. (of a horse or a horse's pace) controlled so that movement is in short restricted steps

   a collected canter

Other Word Forms

• collectedly adverb
• collectedness noun
• uncollected adjective
• well-collected adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of collected¹

First recorded in 1600–10; collect ¹ + -ed ²

Idioms and Phrases

see cool, calm, and collected.

Synonym Study

See calm.

Example Sentences

“I didn’t know if that was included in the price, or if that was going to be collected by customs or somebody else.”

From Los Angeles Times

The machine was collected from North Shields in March 2024 and was welcomed with claps and cheers when it reached Coniston later that day.

From BBC

From his initial interviews with reporters to his conversations with fellow fighters, Mark is kind and collected, an all-around good guy whose amiable manner belies his capacity for violence.

From Salon

He collected five strikeouts and walked only one.

From Los Angeles Times

Fact-checking the administration’s claim is all the more difficult because there are no official data on how states spend money collected from provider taxes, Alice Burns, another KFF analyst, added.

From Los Angeles Times