Poise Synonyms and Antonyms

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Freedom from constraint, formality, embarrassment, or awkwardness
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. balance
  2. composure
  3. aplomb
  4. equilibrium
  5. tact
  6. casualness
  7. ease
  8. gravity
  9. adroitness
  10. easiness
  11. informality
  12. bearing
  13. carriage
  14. naturalness
  15. dexterity
  16. spontaneity
  17. equipoise
  18. imperturbability
  19. libration
  20. unceremoniousness
  21. assuredness
  22. nonchalance
  23. perpendicularity
  24. unrestraint
  25. posture
  26. sangfroid
  27. savoir-faire
  28. cool
  29. serenity
  30. tranquility
  31. sang-froid
Antonyms:
  1. excitedness
To remain stationary over a place or object
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. hang
  2. hover

Words Related to Poise

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Poise Sentence Examples

  • Her poise expressed both dignity and grace.

  • Evidently it was his extraordinary dignity and poise, forbidding even the suggestion of familiarity, quite as much as his stature, that impressed those who knew him.

  • Her skin was creamy, her eyes blue, and she moved with enormous poise and grace in high-heeled silver sandals.

  • But this young king, aged only twenty, very much in love with his young wife and excessively fond of pleasure, soon wrecked the delicate poise of his mental faculties in the festivities of the Hotel SaintPaul; and a violent attack of Pierre de Craon on the constable de Clisson having led to an expedition against his accomplice, the duke of Brittany, Charles was seized by insanity on the road.

  • The extraordinary specimens we possess of his mercantile correspondence and friendly letters, written at this time, attest an astonishing poise and maturity of mind, and self-conscious ambition.

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