poised

Speech parts

1. poised - Adjective

2. poised - Verb

4. poised - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Poise

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

collected self-contained self-possessed equanimous self-collected together placid unruffled phlegmatic equal composed controlled stable balance standing
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Antonyms

restless dizzy disconcerted concerned nervous tense
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Phrases with the word

less poised

Anagrams

posied

Examples

He is forever poised between a clich. Harold Macmillan

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him. Franklin D. Roosevelt

More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care. Richard Neal

Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests - put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again. PZ Myers

The rights of all are equal: justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men. Robert G. Ingersoll

In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self. Ramana Maharshi

Close letter words and terms

POIS pois chiche poise poiseless poiselessness poiser