Antonyms for poised
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1. poisedadjective

   marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action

   "a gull in poised flight"; "George's poised hammer"

   Antonyms:
   unbalanced, discomposed, imbalanced

   Synonyms:
   collected, self-possessed, equanimous, self-contained, self-collected

2. collected, equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessedadjective

   in full control of your faculties

   "the witness remained collected throughout the cross-examination"; "perfectly poised and sure of himself"; "more self-contained and more dependable than many of the early frontiersmen"; "strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble"

   Antonyms:
   imbalanced, discomposed, unbalanced

   Synonyms:
   gathered, self-possessed, equanimous, collected, self-contained, self-collected

How to use poised in a sentence?

1. Michael Caputo:

   Today, CDC has access to all the data it once had and more. National Healthcare Safety Network was unable to keep up with the fast-paced data collection demands of the COVID-19 pandemic, using this new, innovative and flexible collection mechanism, we have far more COVID-related real data, far faster, giving us increased capacity for life-saving projects like therapeutics distribution. And we are now poised to move to automated data collection for the use of every relevant expert at HHS, particularly The CDC.

2. Elijah Cummings:

   The Select Committee is poised to last for months - perhaps until right before the presidential election - and that appears to be the Republican plan.

3. Claus Mose:

   The correction in the DAX was so strong that at some point buyers were poised to come in ... Liquidity is not good, so it doesn't take a lot of buy interest to move the market this way.

4. Dan Belton:

   It’s another indication of the cash-collateral imbalance in the financial system, and there does not appear to be significant relief in sight as Treasury cash balances are poised to continue to fall ahead of the debt ceiling deadline, and as Treasury bill issuance remains negative, the Fed has and will continue to relax any constraints to the facility which will keep rates from moving sustainably negative.

5. Edzard Overbeek as chief executive:

   I am very excited to have been chosen to lead this outstanding company at a very special point in time, the HERE location cloud is poised to be at the heart of new kinds of services that will genuinely change people's lives - everything from autonomous cars and smart cities to digitising enterprises.

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