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Composed vs Composture - What's the difference?

composed | composture |

As an adjective composed

is showing composure.

As a verb composed

is (compose).

As a noun composture is

compost, composted manure.

composed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • showing composure.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=June 4 , author=Phil McNulty , title=England 2 - 2 Switzerland , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Milner and Theo Walcott failed to justify their selection ahead of Aston Villa's Young as they struggled ineffectually in the first half, leaving striker Bent isolated and starved of supply as Switzerland looked the more composed and ordered team.}}

    Verb

    (head)
  • (compose)

    • composture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Compost, composted manure.
  • *1607 Shakespeare, Timon of Athens ,
    • ''The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves
  • *:''The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief,
  • *:''That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen
  • *:From general excrement, each thing's a thief