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say it: poyzd
poised is an adjective meaning "marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action". It carries 2 recorded senses.
marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action
“a gull in poised flight”
“George's poised hammer”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for poised come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.