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composed

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//kəmˈpəʊzd//
  • United States//kəmˈpoʊzd//

Showing composure.

adjective

  1. 1

    Showing composure.

    A kiss of reconciliation settled the matter, and Lord Penrhyn again composed himself in his most composing arm-chair.

    Milner and Theo Walcott failed to justify their selection ahead of Aston Villa's Young as they struggled ineffectually in the first half, leaving striker Bent isolated and starved of supply as Switzerland looked the more composed and ordered team.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of composesimple past and past participle of compose

Forms

comparative
more composed
superlative
most composed
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).