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calm and collected

calm and collected adjective: cool-headed; unflutterable; composed.

Adjective

calm and collected (comparative more calm and collected, superlative most calm and collected)

  1. Cool-headed; unflutterable; composed.
    • Second-year Niners quarterback Brock Purdy looked calm and collected in the pocket and was 23-of-38 for 255 yards and one touchdown.2024 February 12, Ben Morse and Steve Almasy, “Kansas City Chiefs defeat San Francisco 49ers in OT in Super Bowl LVIII, become first back-to-back NFL champions in 19 years”, in CNN.com

Forms of calm and collected

comparativemore calm and collected
superlativemost calm and collected

Questions about calm and collected

What does calm and collected mean?
Calm and collected means cool-headed; unflutterable; composed.
What part of speech is calm and collected?
Calm and collected is an adjective.

Words near calm and collected in the dictionary

  1. callusy
  2. Cally
  3. callystatin
  4. callystatins
  5. calm
  6. calm and collected
  7. calm as a cucumber
  8. calm as a millpond
  9. calm before the storm
  10. calm blue ocean
  11. calm down

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