relax

relax is a 5-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, intransitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews.
2. noun. To make less severe or rigorous; to abate the stringency of; to remit in respect to strenuousness, earnestness, or effort; as, to relax discipline; to relax one's attention or endeavors.
3. noun. Hence, to relieve from attention or effort; to ease; to recreate; to divert; as, amusement relaxes the mind.
4. noun. To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an aperient relaxes the bowels.
5. intransitive verb. To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax.
6. intransitive verb. To abate in severity; to become less rigorous.
7. intransitive verb. To remit attention or effort; to become less diligent; to unbend; as, to relax in study.
8. noun. Relaxation.
9. adjective. Relaxed; lax; hence, remiss; careless.
10. verb. cause to feel relaxed

    "A hot bath always relaxes me"

    Synonyms: unlax, unstrain, unwind

11. verb. become less tense, rest, or take one's ease

    "He relaxed in the hot tub"

    "Let's all relax after a hard day's work"

    Synonyms: decompress, unbend, unwind

12. verb. become loose or looser or less tight

    "The noose loosened"

    "the rope relaxed"

    Synonyms: loose, loosen

13. verb. make less taut

    "relax the tension on the rope"

    Synonyms: unbend

14. verb. make less active or fast

    "He slackened his pace as he got tired"

    "Don't relax your efforts now"

    Synonyms: slack, slacken

15. verb. become less severe or strict

    "The rules relaxed after the new director arrived"

    Synonyms: loosen

16. verb. make less severe or strict

    "The government relaxed the curfew after most of the rebels were caught"

    Synonyms: loosen

17. verb. become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner

    "our new colleague relaxed when he saw that we were a friendly group"

Synonyms

unlax, unstrain, unwind, decompress, unbend, loose, loosen, slack, slacken

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in relax:

laxer

Common word forms

relaxed, relaxer, relaxes, relaxing, relaxable

Words from these letters

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