relaxed
adjective
being free of or relieved from tension or anxiety.
unrelaxed
-
a word derived from
relaxed.
Example Sentences
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In a two-star review, The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw described the "slapstick apocalypse" feature as "laboured, self-conscious and unrelaxed", as well as lacking in real comedy.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2021
“If you’re asking unstretched, unrelaxed muscles to hold still, you’re immediately going to start shaking and they are going to tense.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2017
He looks stiff and unrelaxed, clenching his hands together in a poor impression of a statesman.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2014
There is too much pressure to come across as blissfully relaxed and confident—happy, successful, well-adjusted—during the culmination of a very unrelaxed engagement and wedding-planning process.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2014
The stiff and unrelaxed manner with which Mr. Van Camp bowed to Miss Reynier a moment later was not at all indicative of the fairly respectable fever within his Scotch breast.
From The Stolen Singer by Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger
