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1. (adj.) lax
not strict or severe; negligent:
lax morals.
2. lax
loose or slack:
a lax rope.
3. lax
not rigidly exact or precise; vague:
lax ideas.
4. lax
loose, open, or not retentive, as the bowels.
5. lax
having the bowels loose or open.
6. lax
open or not compact; having a loosely cohering structure; porous:
lax texture.
7. lax
(of a vowel) articulated with relatively relaxed tongue muscles.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME < L laxus loose, slack, wide)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) lax, slack
lacking in rigor or strictness
"such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline"
2. (adj) lax
pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet')
3. (adj) lax
lacking in strength or firmness or resilience
"a lax rope"; "a limp handshake"
4. (adj) lax, loose
emptying easily or excessively
"loose bowels"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) lax
a looseness; diarrhea
2. (verb) lax
not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber
3. (verb) lax
not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal
4. (verb) lax
having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal
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Sense: careless or not strict in discipline or morals
Pupils have been rather lax about some of the school rules recently.
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 Afrikaans: slap |
 Arabic: غَيْر صارِم، مُتَراخٍ |
 Bulgarian: небрежен |
 Brazilian: relaxado |
 Czech: nedbalý |
 German: lässig |
 Danish: slap |
 Greek: χαλαρός (μτφ.), μη αυστηρ |
 Spanish: poco disciplinario, flojo |
 Estonian: lodev |
 Farsi: سهل انگار |
 Finnish: höllä |
 French: relâché |
 Hebrew: לֹא קַפדָנִי |
 Hindi: ढीला, लापरवाह |
 Croatian: nemaran, nehajan |
 Hungarian: laza |
 Indonesian: lalai |
 Icelandic: kærulaus; léttúðugur |
 Italian: lassista, negligente |
 Japanese: だらしのない |
 Korean: 엄하지 않은 |
 Lithuanian: aplaidus, nerūpestingas, |
 Latvian: paviršs; nevīžīgs; vaļīgs |
 Malay: tidak ketat |
 Dutch: laks |
 Norwegian: slapp, løs |
 Polish: rozluźniony, niezdyscypli |
 Persian: سهل انگار |
 Pashto: بى پامه،بى غوره |
 Portuguese: relaxado |
 Romanian: neascultător; indiscip |
 Russian: небрежный; распущенный |
 Slovak: nedbanlivý, laxný |
 Slovenian: brezbrižen |
 Serbian: labav |
 Swedish: slapp |
 Thai: ไม่เข้มงวด |
 Turkish: kayıtsız, umursamaz |
 Taiwanese: 馬虎的，鬆懈的 |
 Ukrainian: розхлябаний; розбещений |
 Urdu: بے احتیاط، بے پروا |
 Vietnamese: lỏng lẻo |
 Chinese: 不严格的，马虎的，松懈的 |
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