relaxed

Definition

Made slack or feeble; weak, soft.

Etymology

From relax + -ed, originally after Latin relaxātus.

Example Sentences

• "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 […]."
• "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."