Lax

[LAX]

Those parents who let their kids eat all their Halloween candy the night of October 31st? Their parenting style might be described as lax. A paperclip chain used as a bike lock? That's an example of lax security.

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Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.

Adjective S.
emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels"

Adjective S.
lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline"

Adjective S.
tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk spoiling their children"; "procedures are lax and discipline is weak"; "too soft on the children"

Adjective S.
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"

Adjective
not taut or rigid; not stretched or held tight; "a lax rope"

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Adjective
pronounced with muscles relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet'')


v. t.
Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.

v. t.
Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal.

v. t.
Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.

n.
A looseness; diarrhea.


Lax

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.
2. Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal.
The discipline was lax.
Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions.
The word "'91ternus" itself is sometimes of a lax signification.
3. Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal. Syn. -- Loose; slack; vague; unconfined; unrestrained; dissolute; licentious.

Lax

Lax, n. A looseness; diarrhea.

Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.

A looseness; diarrhea.

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Usage Examples

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

Misspelled Form

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