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Collected vs Coolheaded - What's the difference?

collected | coolheaded |

As adjectives the difference between collected and coolheaded

is that collected is , emotionally , in focus while coolheaded is having an even temper; calm and collected.

As a verb collected

is (collect).

collected

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • , emotionally , in focus.
    • He stayed collected throughout the ordeal.
  • *

    • Synonyms

    * calm, cool, composed

    Verb

    (head)
  • (collect)
  • *
    • Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.

    coolheaded

    English

    Alternative forms

    * cool-headed

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having an even temper; calm and collected
  • * {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Edison Marshall, chapter=The Heart of Little Shikara, title=O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 citation
    • , passage=There had been none among them coolheaded enough to reason out which trail he had likely taken, and thus look for him by the ford. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1996, date=August 30, author=Jeffrey Felshman, title=How to Win Enemies and Influence People, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=The heated rhetoric masked a more coolheaded strategy. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=March 25, author=Liesl Schillinger, title=The Evolution of a City, in Words and Pictures, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Some essays are coolheaded , some shake with hysteria, some are memoirish, others didactic. }}

    Antonyms

    * hotheaded * reckless