laid-back

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Relaxed and easy‐going; demonstrating an absence of stress or worry.
    — 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.

词形变化

more laid-back comparative most laid-back superlative

词源

From U.S. slang. The verbal phrase lay back is attested from the late 1950s, whereas the adjectival form emerged in print in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Presumably originally a metaphor—literally, “sitting in a tilted‐back chair”, a relaxed posture.
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