recollected

[rek-uh-lek-tid]

adjective

1. calm; composed.

2. remembered; recalled.

3. characterized by or given to contemplation.

Other Word Forms

• recollectedly adverb
• recollectedness noun
• unrecollected adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of recollected¹

First recorded in 1620–30; recollect, re-collect + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Given what’s recollected in director Michael Pack’s documentary, it seems that very little will ever be forgotten, certainly not by those who fought the battles.

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As Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell recollected in a speech last month, “the good ship Transitory was a crowded one, with most mainstream analysts and advanced-economy central bankers on board.”

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Mark Macarro, chairman of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, recollected fellow Native Americans insisting that “Mission Indians” are not like other Indians because they don’t have treaties with the United States.

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The couple married in 1959 — Nancy, she later recollected, took three days to say yes after he proposed.

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Rather, Lerner is working a seam between what is recollected and what is imagined.

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