adj
Meaning 1
Conducive to relaxation; helping one to relax.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a relaxing piece of music
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
relaxing
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
The process by which something is relaxed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- relaxings of the muscles
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
present participle and gerund of relax
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
affording physical or mental rest
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- she spent a restful night at home
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: restful, reposeful
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: расслабля́льны (rasslabljálʹny) — allowing one to relax
- Bulgarian: релакси́ращ (relaksírašt) — allowing one to relax
- Catalan: relaxant — allowing one to relax
- Dutch: ontspannend — allowing one to relax
- Dutch: rustgevend — allowing one to relax
- Finnish: rentouttava — allowing one to relax
- French: relaxant — allowing one to relax
- French: reposant — allowing one to relax
- German: entspannend — allowing one to relax
- German: erholsam — allowing one to relax
- Italian: rilassante — allowing one to relax
- Norwegian Bokmål: avslappende — allowing one to relax
- Polish: odprężający — allowing one to relax
- Portuguese: relaxante — allowing one to relax
- Russian: расслабля́ющий (rasslabljájuščij) — allowing one to relax
- Spanish: relajante — allowing one to relax
- Ukrainian: розслабля́ючий (rozslabljájučyj) — allowing one to relax