equanimous meaning

UK US

equanimous (adjective): in full control of your faculties.

Definition of equanimous

  1. in full control of your faculties
    • the witness remained collected throughout the cross-examination
    • perfectly poised and sure of himself
    • more self-contained and more dependable than many of the early frontiersmen
    • strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble

    Synonyms: collected, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed

    Similar: composed

    Related forms: equanimity

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