relaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈlækst/
rhymes: -ækst
Forms: form: more relaxed
form: most relaxed
Etymology: From relax + -ed, originally after Latin relaxātus.
Senses: examples: text: 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 […].
ref: 1790, James Boswell, edited by Marlies K. Danziger and Frank Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 54:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Made slack or feeble; weak, soft.
examples: text: The relaxed rules were greatly tightened after the lawsuit.
text: I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Made more lenient; less strict; lax.
examples: text: He's a relaxed kind of guy, he never lets himself get upset.
text: Students and faculty members lunch at the cafeteria and naturally communicate freely with one another in a relaxed and informal setting.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 4:
text: Even so, this delightful station is well worth a visit, - either to admire the architecture, sip a coffee from the shop, or just soak up the relaxed atmosphere of the area and watch the birds and other wildlife on the shores right outside the station.
ref: 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Grange-over-Sands”, in RAIL, number 948, page 28:
synonyms: word: easygoing
word: laid-back
word: unconcerned
word: calm
word: collected
word: composed
word: cool-headed
word: equable
word: equanimous
word: equanimitable
word: even-keeled
word: even-minded
word: even-tempered
word: imperturbable
word: laid-back
word: level-headed
word: mellow
word: pacate
word: pacific
word: peaceable
word: peaceful
word: phlegmatic
word: placid
word: quiescent
word: quiet
word: relaxed
word: roolie
word: sedate
word: serene
word: still
word: tranquil
word: unexcited
word: unfazed
word: unflappable
word: unflustered
word: unperturbable
word: unruffable
word: unruffled
word: untumultuous
word: airy
word: at ease
word: at peace
word: carefree
word: careless
word: casual
word: chill
word: cool
word: devil-may-care
word: easy-breezy
word: easygoing
word: happy-go-lucky
word: indifferent
word: insouciant
word: laid-back
word: leisurely
word: lighthearted
word: loose
word: mellow
word: nonchalant
word: pococurante
word: relaxed
word: serene
word: solute
word: tranquil
word: unanxious
word: unbothered
word: unconcerned
word: undisturbed
word: unruffled
word: untroubled
word: unworried
word: wanton
antonyms: anxious
nervous
stressed
glosses: Free from tension or anxiety; at ease; leisurely.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Without physical tension; in a state of equilibrium.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Of a muscle: soft, not tensed.
Derived terms: relaxed education