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UNRELAXED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unrelaxed mean?
• UNRELAXED (adjective)
The adjective UNRELAXED has 1 sense:
1. nor relaxed
Familiarity information: UNRELAXED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Nor relaxed
Context example:
his life was drawing to a close in baffled zeal and unrelaxed strain
Similar:
tense (in or of a state of physical or nervous tension)
Context examples
One secret which I alone possessed was the hope to which I had dedicated myself; and the moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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