relaxed

«relaxed» in Mova's school dictionary: calm and not worried or tense — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective; verb (past of relax: relax, relaxes, relaxed, relaxing)

meaning for a pupil

1) Relaxed means calm and not worried or tense. tree →

2) A relaxed place or rule is easy-going and not strict. tree →

3) Relaxed is the past of relax: to rest, become calm, or make muscles less tight. tree →

sense in the lessons

In lessons about feelings, being relaxed is the opposite of being stressed or worried; breathing slowly helps you feel relaxed. In PE, relaxed muscles help you stretch. Phrases: «feel relaxed», «relaxed atmosphere», «relaxed about».

examples

• I feel relaxed after a warm bath. tree →
• The holiday was very relaxed. tree →
• She relaxed on the sofa with a book. tree →
• Take deep breaths to feel relaxed. tree →
• Our teacher is relaxed about uniform on sports day. tree →
• The cat lay relaxed in the sun. tree →
• He relaxed his grip on the rope. tree →
• She gave another pull, but relaxed her hold, fancying that there was a rumbling sound right beneath her feet. tree →

note

Compare: relaxed (how you feel) vs relaxing (what makes you feel that way): «a relaxing bath makes me relaxed». Opposites: tense, stressed, worried.

In the corpora

• A loose, wiggly body and a soft, open mouth usually mean a relaxed, friendly dog.
• Informal language is relaxed and chatty; formal language is careful and polite, used for teachers, strangers and official writing.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «relaxed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.