'Lax' definitions:
Definition of 'lax'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline" [syn: lax, slack]
adjective
Pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet') [ant: tense]
adjective
Lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; "a lax rope"; "a limp handshake" [ant: tense]
adjective
Emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels" [syn: lax, loose]
Definition of 'Lax'
From: GCIDE
- Lax \Lax\ (l[a^]ks), a. [Compar. Laxer (l[a^]ks"[~e]r); 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. [1913 Webster]
- The flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy. --Ray. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal. [1913 Webster]
- The discipline was lax. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions. --J. A. Symonds. [1913 Webster]
- The word "[ae]ternus" itself is sometimes of a lax signification. --Jortin. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Loose; slack; vague; unconfined; unrestrained; dissolute; licentious. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lax'
From: GCIDE
- Lax \Lax\, n. A looseness; diarrhea. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'lax'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- do-nothing,
- doless,
- 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