Word Meanings - SELF-POSSESSED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Composed or tranquill in mind, manner, etc.; undisturbed.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SELF-POSSESSED)

• Collected
• Calm
• composed
• cool
• attentive
• self-possessed
• firm
• placid
• serene
• unmoved
• Cool
• Cold
• frigid
• unimpassioned
• calm
• indifferent
• deliberate
• dispassioned
• collected
• apathetic
• Easy
• Quiet
• comfortable
• manageable
• indulgent
• facile
• lenient
• unconstrained
• gentle
• not difficult
• unconcerned
• Sober
• Temperate
• unintoxicated
• dispassionate
• reasonable
• culm
• sound
• unexcited
• serious
• grave
• sedate
• steady
• abstemious
• moderate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SELF-POSSESSED)

• Shelve
• burke
• discard
• hazard
• chance
• risk
• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad

Related words: (words related to SELF-POSSESSED)

• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• COMPOSITOUS
  Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• UNCONCERNMENT
  The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. South.
• SEDATE
  Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper. Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• PLACID
  Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• INDIFFERENTLY
  In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• LENIENTLY
  In a lenient manner.
• COMPOSURE
  1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.