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Lax

Lax Meaning & Definition
Lax Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Lax?

[adj] emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels"
[adj] lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline"
[adj] tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk spoiling their children"; "procedures are lax and discipline is weak"; "too soft on the children"
[adj] lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; "flaccid muscles"; "took his lax hand in hers"; "gave a limp handshake"; "a limp gesture as if waving away all desire to know" G.K.Chesterton; "a slack grip"
[adj] not taut or rigid; not stretched or held tight; "a lax rope"
[adj] (phonetics) pronounced with muscles relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet')

Synonyms | Synonyms for Lax: drooping | droopy | flaccid | floppy | indulgent | lenient | limp | loose | loose-jointed | negligent | permissive | regular | relaxed | sagging | slack | soft | tensionless | unconstipated | weak

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Lax In Webster's Dictionary

\Lax\, a. [Compar. {Laxer}; superl. {Laxest}.] [L. laxus Cf. {Laches}, {Languish}, {Lease}, v. t., {Leash}.] 1. Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber. The flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy. --Ray. 2. Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal. The discipline was lax. --Macaulay. Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions. --J. A. Symonds. The word ``[ae]ternus'' itself is sometimes of a lax signification. --Jortin. 3. Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal. Syn: Loose; slack; vague; unconfined; unrestrained; dissolute; licentious.
\Lax\, n. A looseness; diarrhea.

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