adjective
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not under strain; relaxed
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not cleared or separated by passing through a strainer
Etymology
Origin of unstrained
Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at un- 1, strain 1, -ed 2
Example Sentences
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Arriving at his first stop, he was unstrained about how happy he was to be there, saying, “It feels like home.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2023
The men’s dancing was unstrained, with beats cleanly executed.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2014
It’s a lovely, unstrained performance, never better than when Maureen entertains that unheard-of phenomenon, a prospective lover, played by a first-rate David Sedgwick.
From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2013
Fry is an unstrained Malvolio: less domineering and more generous than might be expected, allowing disappointment to drift over his looming physical presence and plummy delivery.
From The Guardian • Nov. 25, 2012
Ingenuity is more apparent than freshness, the invention is neither easy nor unstrained, and though the old marvellous power over the real is again abundantly manifest, there is some alloy of the artificial.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John
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