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relaxed

adj
/ɹɪˈlækst/

Etymology

From relax + -ed, originally after Latin relaxātus.

  1. derived from relaxātus

Definitions

  1. Made slack or feeble

    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

    Made more lenient; less strict; lax.

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

  3. Free from tension or anxiety

    Free from tension or anxiety; at ease; leisurely.

    • He's a relaxed kind of guy, he never lets himself get upset.
    • Students and faculty members lunch at the cafeteria and naturally communicate freely with one another in a relaxed and informal setting.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Without physical tension

      Without physical tension; in a state of equilibrium.

    2. Of a muscle

      Of a muscle: soft, not tensed.

    3. simple past and past participle of relax

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at relaxed. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at relaxed. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at relaxed

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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