relaxed
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From relax + -ed, originally after Latin relaxātus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɹɪˈlækst/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ækst
Adjective
[edit]relaxed (comparative more relaxed, superlative most relaxed)
- (obsolete, physiology) Made slack or feeble; weak, soft. [from 15th c.]
- 1790, James Boswell, edited by Marlies K. Danziger and Frank Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 54:
- 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 […] .
- Made more lenient; less strict; lax. [from 17th c.]
- The relaxed rules were greatly tightened after the lawsuit.
- 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:
- 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.
- Free from tension or anxiety; at ease; leisurely. [from 18th c.]
- Synonyms: easygoing, laid-back, unconcerned; see also Thesaurus:calm, Thesaurus:carefree
- Antonyms: anxious, nervous, stressed
- He's a relaxed kind of guy, he never lets himself get upset.
- 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, , page 4:
- Students and faculty members lunch at the cafeteria and naturally communicate freely with one another in a relaxed and informal setting.
- 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Grange-over-Sands”, in RAIL, number 948, page 28:
- 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.
- (chiefly physics) Without physical tension; in a state of equilibrium. [from 19th c.]
- (physiology) Of a muscle: soft, not tensed. [from 19th c.]
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]having an easy-going mood
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free from tension or anxiety, at ease
Verb
[edit]relaxed
- simple past and past participle of relax
Dutch
[edit]Alternative forms
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[edit]Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]relaxed (comparative relaxter, superlative relaxtst)
Declension
[edit]| Declension of relaxed | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | relaxed | |||
| inflected | relaxte | |||
| comparative | relaxter | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | relaxed | relaxter | het relaxtst het relaxtste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | relaxte | relaxtere | relaxtste |
| n. sing. | relaxed | relaxter | relaxtste | |
| plural | relaxte | relaxtere | relaxtste | |
| definite | relaxte | relaxtere | relaxtste | |
| partitive | relaxeds | relaxters | — | |
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