Synonyms of recollected

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adjective

ˌrē-kə-ˈlek-təd 

as in collected

free from emotional or mental agitation

are you recollected enough to talk about your close call?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• collected
• composed
• calm
• serene
• possessed
• peaceful
• tranquil
• placid
• at peace
• undisturbed
• unperturbed
• unruffled
• unshaken
• smooth
• relieved
• confident
• untroubled
• together
• unworried
• limpid
• steady
• sedate
• centered
• equal
• cool
• self-possessed
• level
• relaxed
• self-composed
• coolheaded
• mellow
• detached
• imperturbable
• nonchalant
• assured
• even
• equable
• unshakable
• unflappable
• well-balanced
• carefree
• unconcerned
• sober
• disciplined
• affable
• easygoing
• tranquilized
• nerveless
• dispassionate
• indifferent
• aloof
• even-keeled
• phlegmatic
• breezy
• self-contained
• well-adjusted
• impassive
• stolid
• self-controlled
• laid-back
• happy-go-lucky
• bovine
• self-assured
• loosey-goosey
• devil-may-care

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disturbed
• upset
• agitated
• perturbed
• anxious
• bothered
• unstrung
• worried
• uneasy
• distressed
• unsettled
• nervous
• flustered
• unquiet
• discomposed
• restless
• tense
• unglued
• unhinged
• jumpy
• jittery
• unstable
• skittish
• uptight
• high-strung

recollected

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verb (1)

past tense of recollect

as in remembered

to bring back to mind

I can't recollect if I turned the stove off or not before leaving the house

Synonyms & Similar Words

• remembered
• recalled
• minded
• reproduced
• thought (of)
• reminded
• reminisced (about)
• evoked
• recaptured
• flashed back (to)
• extracted
• elicited
• recurred
• harked back (to)
• hearkened back (to)
• harkened back (to)
• relived
• represented
• educed
• raised

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• forgot
• ignored
• disregarded
• neglected
• lost
• disremembered
• overlooked
• unlearned
• missed
• misremembered
• blanked (out)

re-collected

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verb (2)

past tense of re-collect

1

as in contained

to gain emotional or mental control of

she had to calm down and re-collect herself after being told she had won the lottery

Synonyms & Similar Words

• contained
• composed
• collected
• calmed
• controlled
• restrained
• settled
• recovered
• held back
• rallied
• soothed
• quieted
• stilled
• lulled
• tranquilized

2

as in retrieved

to get again in one's possession

I struggled to re-collect the papers the wind had torn from my hands

Synonyms & Similar Words

• retrieved
• recaptured
• regained
• recovered
• reclaimed
• got back
• reacquired
• repossessed
• retook
• replenished
• recruited
• recouped
• rescued
• redeemed
• repurchased

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lost
• misplaced
• mislaid

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of recollected

Adjective

When the lights switch on and the credits roll, you are left with ashes of memory like recollected experiences of your own. — Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026

Does your table offer a first-class ticket to spicy destinations across the globe, or a comfortable sinking into recollected recipes from your mother? — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 7 June 2025

Perhaps a strategic loosening of novelistic form was what Hollinghurst was going for, in an effort to capture the enigma of the recollected past. — Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024

Abby therefore spends the night imagining her way through the various rooms of her own life, attempting to attach each beat of her speech to a recollected physical space. — Lynn Steger Strong, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023

The substance of such recollected moments here isn’t all that different from the thumbnail making-of-a-champion profiles that regularly punctuate Olympics broadcasts. — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017

Verb

If an employee had occasion to cross paths with him, Casey would likely have introduced himself by his first name, shaken the person’s hand, and recollected a past encounter or shown an interest in what the employee was doing. — Marc Levinson, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026

Homer’s poem never depicts the horse and the sacking of Troy in direct action; the city’s fall is recollected only in the form of stories that glorify Greece’s soldiers. — Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 16 July 2026

Through its characters, the book stages an argument about the virtues of various types of maps—those that are measured, those that are recollected, those that are dreamed. — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

But the Bruins recollected themselves, and the flow state returned on the other side of the timeout. — Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 2 Mar. 2026

The rueful voice-over from myriad characters is spoken in the past tense, the onscreen moments (even the present-day scenes) seemingly being recollected long after. — Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026

Johnson paints Grainier’s life as a series of faces with clear entrances and exits, episodes of friendship or acquaintancy that can only be recollected as something finite and finished. — Rory Doherty, Time, 21 Nov. 2025

There were no dates recollected correctly. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025

Leonora liked to think of her life as calm of mind, all passion spent, or, more rarely, as emotion recollected in tranquillity. — Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025