relax

Other forms of relax

past tense

relaxed·

present participle

relaxing·

third person

relaxes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about relax

What does relax mean?

relax means "become less tense, rest, or take one's ease". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in relax?

relax has 2 syllables: re-lax. The stress falls on "lax". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈlæks/.

What is another word for relax?

Close synonyms include loosen up, unbend, unwind, decompress, slow down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of relax?

The recorded antonyms are tense, tense.

Is relax a common word?

relax is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with relax?

3 words rhyme with relax. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.