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Definition of Relaxing
1. Adjective. Affording physical or mental rest. "She spent a restful night at home"
Similar to: Slumberous, Slumbrous
Derivative terms: Restfulness
Antonyms: Restless
Definition of Relaxing
1. Adjective. Having a quality whereby it is easy to relax when subjected to it ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of relax) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Relaxing
1. relax [v] - See also: relax
Lexicographical Neighbors of Relaxing
Literary usage of Relaxing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"SWEETNESS relaxing IN the other senses we have remarked, ... Now it ought to
appear that sweet things, which are the smooth of taste, are relaxing too. ..."
2. A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and by Edmund Burke, Abraham Mills (1844)
"SWEETNESS relaxing. IN the other senses, we have remarked that smooth things are
relaxing. Now it ought to appear that sweet things, which are the smooth of ..."
3. The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke (1877)
"IN the other senses we have remarked, that smooth things are relaxing. ...
That sweet things are generally relaxing, is evident; because all such, ..."
4. A Manual of personal hygiene: Proper Living Upon a Physiological Basis by Walter Lytle Pyle (1917)
"relaxing Exercise for the Knee (Fig. 84).— Steady the body by holding on to a chair.
Bring the Fir.. 82. ... relaxing Exercises for the Shoulder (Fig. 86). ..."
5. Writings and Speeches by Edmund Burke (1901)
"SWEETNESS relaxing. IN the other senses we have remarked, that smooth things are
relaxing. <^Jow it ought to appear that sweet things, which are the smooth ..."
6. The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905)
"... death, and eternity, I would see a change pass over his face, the stern features
relaxing into a smile, the eyes softening with a pathetic tenderness. ..."
7. Advanced Elocution: Designed as a Practical Treatise for Teachers and by J. W. Shoemaker, George Beswick Hynson, John Hendricks Bechtel (1896)
"relaxing Exercises* For Fingers 1. Elbows near intercostal muscles, ... *By
relaxing is meant the removal of nerve force or tension from certain sen ..."
8. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke (1826)
"SWEETNESS relaxing. IN the other senses we have remarked, that smooth things are
relaxing. Now it ought to appear that sweet things, which are the smooth of ..."
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