recollected

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adjective

re·​col·​lect·​ed ˌrē-kə-ˈlek-təd How to pronounce recollected (audio)
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: composed, calm

recollected

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past tense and past participle of recollect

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Adjective are you recollected enough to talk about your close call?
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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

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First Known Use

Adjective

1595, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of recollected was in 1595

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“Recollected.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recollected. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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