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laid-back

laid-back adjective: relaxed and easy‐going; demonstrating an absence of stress or worry.

Adjective

laid-back (comparative more laid-back, superlative most laid-back)

  1. Relaxed and easy‐going; demonstrating an absence of stress or worry.
    • This hit‐writer of the early 60s came out with a highly contemporary style which fitted the fashionable term ‘laid‐back’, and her Tapestry album zoomed up to become one of the three biggest‐selling LPs of all time.1973 July 28, Melody Maker, page 36, column 2
    • The V‐2’s directional system was notoriously erratic. In May 1947, a V‐2 launched from White Sands Proving Ground headed south instead of north, missing downtown Juarez, Mexico, by 3 miles. The Mexican government’s response to the American bombing was admirably laid back. General Enrique Diaz...2010, Mary Roach, “You Go First: The Alarming Prospect of Life Without Gravity”, in Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 90

laid-back meaning in Malayalam

laid-back in Malayalam

easygoing, relaxed, equable
ശാന്തനായ, അയഞ്ഞമട്ടിലുള്ള, ശാന്തഭാവമുള്ള, സാവധാനക്കാരനായ, പിരിമുറുക്കമില്ലാത്ത, വികാരക്ഷോഭമുണ്ടാകാത്ത

Synonyms of laid-back

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Forms of laid-back

comparativemore laid-back
superlativemost laid-back

Origin of laid-back

From U.S. slang. The verbal phrase lay back is attested from the late 1950s, whereas the adjectival form emerged in print in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Presumably originally a metaphor—literally, “sitting in a tilted‐back chair”, a relaxed posture.

Questions about laid-back

What does laid-back mean?
Laid-back means relaxed and easy‐going; demonstrating an absence of stress or worry.
What is laid-back in Malayalam?
Laid-back in Malayalam is ശാന്തനായ, അയഞ്ഞമട്ടിലുള്ള, ശാന്തഭാവമുള്ള. See Laid-back meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is laid-back?
Laid-back is an adjective.

Words near laid-back in the dictionary

  1. laid tracks
  2. laid up
  3. laid up in lavender
  4. laid up with
  5. laid waste
  6. laid-back
  7. laid-off
  8. laidback
  9. laidbackness
  10. laide
  11. laidest

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: laid-back (page history and authors); laid-back (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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