décontracté
French, adjective
décontracté is a French adjective meaning “relaxed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of décontracter. With an accent, décontracte is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui fait preuve d’aisance, d’apaisement, qui est détendu”.
What does décontracté mean in English?
adjective
- 1
relaxed
- 2
casual, informal, relaxed
verb
- 1
past participle of décontracter
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui fait preuve d’aisance, d’apaisement, qui est détendu.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of décontracté
- décontractée feminine
- décontractés masculine plural
- décontractées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to décontracté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is décontracté in French?
décontracté appears 1.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).