Qualities
Synonyms for collected
Synonyms for collected: poised and gathered. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for collected
Interchangeable with collected in this sense
Audited under collected's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one collected carries in that sense.
- poisedadjective, in the sense "in full control of your faculties"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name collected as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- gatheredgathered is an adjective in the sense "brought together in one place"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under collected and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
in full control of your faculties
The witness remained collected throughout the cross-examination.
The true synonym
poised
Same sentence, swapped: The witness remained poised throughout the cross-examination.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot collected is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- gathered
- intimate
- linked
Where collected turns up in the game
collected is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where collected is the trap
- possessedadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is obsessed, in the sense "influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion", and collected is on the board beside it.
Play collected
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so collected reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because qualities is the company collected keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. collected carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.