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Definitions for Lax

[1] not strict or severe; careless or negligent: lax morals; a lax attitude toward discipline.
[2] loose or slack; not tense, rigid, or firm: a lax rope; a lax handshake.
[3] not rigidly exact or precise; vague: lax ideas.
[4] open, loose, or not retentive, as diarrheal bowels.
[5] (of a person) having the bowels unusually loose or open.
[6] open or not compact; having a loosely cohering structure; porous: lax tissue; lax texture.
[7] Phonetics . (of a vowel) articulated with relatively relaxed tongue muscles. Compare tense1(def 4) .
[8] lacking firmness; not strict
[9] lacking precision or definition
[10] not taut
[11] phonetics (of a speech sound) pronounced with little muscular effort and consequently having relatively imprecise accuracy of articulation and little temporal duration. In English the vowel i in bit is lax
[12] (of flower clusters) having loosely arranged parts

Words related to Lax

sloppy, negligent, careless, lenient, indifferent, soft, vague, broad, casual, delinquent, derelict, devil-may-care, easygoing, flaccid, forgetful, general, inaccurate, indefinite, inexact, neglectful

Words nearby Lax

lawton, lawyer, lawyer vine, lawyer's wig, lawyering, lax, laxalt, laxation, laxative, laxity, laxness

Origin of Lax

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin laxus loose, slack, wide; akin to languēre to languish; cognate with Old English slæc slack1

Other words from Lax

lax·ly , adverb
lax·ness , noun
o·ver·lax , adjective
o·ver·lax·ly , adverb
o·ver·lax·ness , noun

Word origin for Lax

C14 (originally used with reference to the bowels): from Latin laxus loose

Synonyms for Lax

careless, indifferent, lenient, negligent, sloppy, soft, vague, any way, asleep on job, behindhand, broad, casual, delinquent, derelict, devil-may-care, disregardful, easygoing, flaccid, forgetful, general, imprecise, inaccurate, indefinite, inexact, neglectful, nonspecific, oblivious, overindulgent, paying no mind, regardless, shapeless, slipshod, unmindful, yielding