relaxed

Adjective

relaxed (comparative more relaxed, superlative most relaxed)

1. (obsolete) 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 […].1790, James Boswell, edited by Marlies K. Danziger and Frank Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 54
2. 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.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

   Synonyms:

   clement, easygoing, soft-handed, forbearing, indulgent, lax, lenient, loose-handed, permissible, permissive

3. 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.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

   Synonyms:

   easygoing, laid-back, unconcerned, calm, steady, collected, composed, cool-headed, equable, equanimous

   Antonyms:

   anxious, nervous, stressed

4. Without physical tension; in a state of equilibrium.
5. Of a muscle: soft, not tensed.