What is the meaning of composed?

verb

  • Form the substance of.
    • usage: "Greed and ambition composed his personality"
  • Write music.
    • usage: "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"
  • Produce a literary work.
    • usage: "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"
  • Put together out of existing material.
    • usage: "compile a list"
  • Calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet.
    • usage: "She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult"
  • Make up plans or basic details for.
    • usage: "frame a policy"

adjective

  • Serenely self-possessed and free from agitation especially in times of stress.
    • usage: "the performer seemed completely composed as she stepped onto the stage"; "I felt calm and more composed than I had in a long time"
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