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self-possessed

self-possessed adjective: in full control of one's faculties, and having a firm belief in one's abilities; confident, assured and poised.

Adjective

self-possessed (comparative more self-possessed, superlative most self-possessed)

  1. In full control of one's faculties, and having a firm belief in one's abilities; confident, assured and poised.

self-possessed meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

self-possessed in Malayalam

composed, assured, self-assured
ചിത്തസ്വാധീനമുള്ള, ആത്മവിശ്വാസമുള്ള, ആത്മനിയന്ത്രണമുള്ള, ശാന്തനായ, അക്ഷ്ധ, അക്ഷോഭ

self-possessed in Kannada

ಸ್ವಸ್ಥಚಿತ್ತನಾದ, ಶಾಂತಮನಸ್ಕನಾದ

Forms of self-possessed

comparativemore self-possessed
superlativemost self-possessed

Origin of self-possessed

From self- + possessed.

Words formed from self-possessed

Questions about self-possessed

What does self-possessed mean?
Self-possessed means in full control of one's faculties, and having a firm belief in one's abilities; confident, assured and poised.
What is self-possessed in Malayalam?
Self-possessed in Malayalam is ചിത്തസ്വാധീനമുള്ള, ആത്മവിശ്വാസമുള്ള, ആത്മനിയന്ത്രണമുള്ള. See Self-possessed meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is self-possessed?
Self-possessed is an adjective.

Words near self-possessed in the dictionary

  1. self-polluting
  2. self-pollution
  3. self-portrait
  4. self-portraitist
  5. self-portraits
  6. self-possessed
  7. self-possessedly
  8. self-possession
  9. self-powered
  10. self-praise
  11. self-praise is no recommendation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-possessed (page history and authors); self-possessed (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); self-possessed (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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