unrelaxed s nor relaxed his life was drawing to a close in baffled zeal and unrelaxed strain"- U.B.Phillips Usage(s) Five times in the past year, unrelaxed, unidentified staffers have stopped the Muzak. As he presented his case in British-tutored English, he sat, unrelaxed, on the edge of his chair. The unrelaxed tension in Author Powers' stories is the pull of the real against the ideal.