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Relaxed

//ɹɪˈlækst// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Made slack or feeble; weak, soft. obsolete

    "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. 2
    Made more lenient; less strict; lax.

    "The relaxed rules were greatly tightened after the lawsuit."

  3. 3
    Free from tension or anxiety; at ease; leisurely.

    "He's a relaxed kind of guy, he never lets himself get upset."

  4. 4
    Without physical tension; in a state of equilibrium.
  5. 5
    Of a muscle: soft, not tensed.
Adjective
  1. 1
    without strain or anxiety wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of relax form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From relax + -ed, originally after Latin relaxātus.

Etymology 2

From relax + -ed, originally after Latin relaxātus.

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