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relaxed

adjective/ɹɪˈlækst/

What It Means

Made slack or feeble; weak, soft.

Made more lenient; less strict; lax.

Free from tension or anxiety; at ease; leisurely.

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

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Relaxed in Context

“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, page 4

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From relax + -ed, originally after Latin relaxātus.

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