mindmap root((松弛)) loose is widely referable to persons or things free from a usual or former restraint: a book with a ~ page; or to something not firmly or tightly held or connected between points of contact: drive with ~ reigns; or to a substances or fabric with particles or filaments in open arrangement: a ~- woven woolen. relaxed implies a loss of some tightness, tension, strictness, or rigidity; it may also imply an easing of rather than a freeing from what restrains: the ~ discipline of the last few days of school. slack otherwise close to relaxed, may stress lack of firmness and steadiness: an overweight body, pudgy and ~. lax stresses lack of steadiness, firmness, and tone or, in respect to immaterial things, may stress lack of needed or proper steadiness and firmness: a ~ administration.