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Unstrained

Unstrained \Un*strained"\, a. [Pref. un- not + strain.]

  1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk.

  2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference.
    --Hakewill.

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unstrained

a. Not strained.

WordNet
unstrained
  1. adj. not placed under psychological stress; "the campaign would not leave party loyalties unstrained"

  2. not processed by putting through a strainer; "unstrained home-style orange juice"

  3. not resulting from undue effort; not forced; "a voice with a pleasingly unforced quality"; "his playing is facile and unstrained" [syn: unforced]

Usage examples of "unstrained".

Exquisite melodies, limpid and unstrained as the carol of a bird in Spring-time, and as plaintive as the cooing of a turtle-dove seems as natural products of the Scottish Highlands as the gorse which blazons on their hillsides in August.

More than that, they could bring themselves to associate with that same skeleton on terms of unstrained equality.

Her voice was unstrained, as though she were used to a brisk morning jaunt.

In his mind now his mother was alive, young, dancing in an open room, with an unstrained integrity and untroubled freedom that had been achieved, of course, by pure artifice and repetition.