relaxed

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relaxed

  • /ɹɪˈlækst/

Rhymes with -ækst

Where it comes from

From relax + -ed, originally after Latin relaxātus.

adjective more relaxed · most relaxed

  1. obsolete Made slack or feeble; weak, soft. It was a very wet morning. I woke relaxed and melancholy as in the country, and walked about an hour under cover, in the middle of the town […].
  2. Made more lenient; less strict; lax. The relaxed rules were greatly tightened after the lawsuit.
  3. Free from tension or anxiety; at ease; leisurely. He's a relaxed kind of guy, he never lets himself get upset.
  4. Without physical tension; in a state of equilibrium.
  5. Of a muscle: soft, not tensed.

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of relax

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