Laid-back
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Laid-back is an adjective meaning Relaxed and easy‐going; demonstrating an absence of stress or worry.
Meaning
Relaxed and easy‐going; demonstrating an absence of stress or worry.
Example Sentences
You have to accept the deliberate unspeed of Italian timetables if you want the right to be liberated by their correspondingly laid‐back lifestyle.
This hit‐writer of the early 60s came out with a highly contemporary style which fitted the fashionable term ‘laid‐back’, and her Tapestry album zoomed up to become one of the three biggest‐selling LPs of all time.
The V‐2’s directional system was notoriously erratic. In May 1947, a V‐2 launched from White Sands Proving Ground headed south instead of north, missing downtown Juarez, Mexico, by 3 miles. The Mexican government’s response to the American bombing was admirably laid back. General Enrique Diaz Gonzales and Consul General Raul Michel met with United States officials, who issued apologies and an invitation to come to “the next rocket shoot” at White Sands. […]
Synonyms for laid-back
Depending on context, synonyms include easygoing, unconcerned, airy, carefree, careless, casual.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include easygoing, relaxed, mellow, easy-breezy, comfortable, nonchalant.
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