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Lax
| 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
Related Terms | Find terms related to Lax: abandoned |
accented |
accepting |
admissive |
aleatoric |
aleatory |
allowing |
alveolar |
amorphous |
apical |
apico-alveolar |
apico-dental |
approximate |
approximative |
articulated |
assimilated |
back |
backward |
bagging |
baggy |
barytone |
behindhand |
bilabial |
blobby |
blurred |
blurry |
bone-lazy |
broad |
broad-minded |
cacuminal |
cadging |
careless |
central |
cerebral |
chambering |
chance |
chancy |
chaotic |
checked |
clement |
close |
compassionate |
confused |
consenting |
consonant |
consonantal |
continuant |
culpably negligent |
dallying |
dangling |
delaying |
delinquent |
dental |
derelict |
dilatory |
dillydallying |
disordered |
disregardful |
dissimilated |
doless |
do-nothing |
dorsal |
dronish |
drony |
drooping |
ease |
ease off |
easy |
easygoing |
ergophobic |
faineant |
flabby |
flaccid |
flapping |
flat |
flimsy |
floppy |
foggy |
foot-dragging |
forbearant |
forbearing |
forgetful |
forgiving |
freethinking |
front |
fuzzy |
general |
gentle |
glide |
glossal |
glottal |
go-go |
good-for-nothing |
guttural |
hanging |
hard |
hazy |
heavy |
high |
hit-or-miss |
humane |
ill-defined |
immoderate |
impotent |
imprecise |
inaccurate |
inadvertent |
inattentive |
inchoate |
incoherent |
incontinent |
incorrect |
indecisive |
indefinable |
indefinite |
indeterminable |
indeterminate |
indifferent |
indistinct |
indolent |
indulgent |
inexact |
intemperate |
intonated |
irrepressible |
labial |
labiodental |
labiovelar |
lackadaisical |
laggard |
lagging |
laissez-faire |
lateral |
latitudinarian |
lazy |
lenient |
liberal |
libertarian |
libertine |
licentious |
light |
limp |
lingering |
lingual |
liquid |
loitering |
loose |
loose-moraled |
loosen |
low |
merciful |
Micawberish |
mid |
mild |
moderate |
monophthongal |
muted |
narrow |
nasal |
nasalized |
neglectful |
neglecting |
negligent |
nonaggressive |
noninterfering |
nonprohibitive |
nonrestrictive |
nonspecific |
oblivious |
obscure |
occlusive |
of easy virtue |
of loose morals |
off-guard |
open |
open-minded |
orderless |
out of control |
out of hand |
out of line |
out of plumb |
out of square |
out of true |
overindulgent |
overly permissive |
overpermissive |
oxytone |
palatal |
palatalized |
Paphian |
parasitic |
patient |
permissive |
permitting |
pharyngeal |
pharyngealized |
phonemic |
phonetic |
phonic |
pitch |
pitched |
posttonic |
procrastinating |
procrastinative |
procrastinatory |
promiscuous |
rampant |
random |
regardless |
reinless |
relax |
relaxed |
remiss |
retroflex |
rickety |
riotous |
rounded |
rubbery |
scamping |
scrounging |
semivowel |
shadowed forth |
shadowy |
shaky |
shapeless |
shiftless |
shuffling |
skimping |
slack |
slacken |
slighting |
slipshod |
sloppy |
slothful |
slow |
sluggish |
slurring |
soft |
sonant |
sponging |
stochastic |
stopped |
streaming |
stressed |
strong |
suffering |
surd |
sweeping |
syllabic |
tender |
tense |
thick |
throaty |
tolerant |
tolerating |
tonal |
tonic |
twangy |
unaccented |
unbigoted |
unbridled |
unchecked |
uncircumspect |
unclear |
uncoerced |
uncompelled |
unconstrained |
uncontrolled |
uncurbed |
undefined |
undestined |
undetermined |
unenterprising |
unfactual |
unforced |
ungoverned |
unguarded |
uninhibited |
unmastered |
unmeasured |
unmindful |
unmuzzled |
unplain |
unprecise |
unprohibitive |
unreined |
unrepressed |
unreserved |
unrestrained |
unrestrictive |
unrigorous |
unrounded |
unruly |
unspecified |
unstressed |
unsubdued |
unsuppressed |
untighten |
unwary |
unwatchful |
vague |
veiled |
velar |
vocalic |
vocoid |
voiced |
voiceless |
vowel |
vowellike |
wanton |
wayward |
weak |
whorish |
wide |
wild |
work-shy
See Also |
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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