Lax

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Lacking in rigor, strictness, or firmness. See Synonyms at negligent.
  • adj. Not taut, firm, or compact; slack. See Synonyms at loose.
  • adj. Loose and not easily retained or controlled. Used of bowel movements.
  • adj. Linguistics Pronounced with the muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed, as the vowel (ĕ) in let.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A salmon.
  • adj. lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
  • adj. loose; not tight or taut.
  • adj. lacking care; neglectful, negligent
  • n. lacrosse
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack
  • adj. Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal.
  • adj. Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
  • n. A looseness; diarrhea.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Slack; loose; soft; not firm in texture, consistency, or tension; readily yielding to touch or pressure: as, lax flesh or fiber; a lax cord.
  • Loose; free; being at ease.
  • Relaxed; not retentive: as, lax bowels.
  • Loose as regards force or energy; wanting vigor; weak; remiss; lacking in strictness: as, lax discipline; he is lax in his duty.
  • Loose in construction or application; not rigidly exact or precise; vague; equivocal.
  • In botany, loose or open; not compact: said of some panicles.
  • n. A loosing; relief.
  • n. A looseness; diarrhea.
  • To relax.
  • n. A salmon.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet')
  • adj. lacking in rigor or strictness
  • adj. emptying easily or excessively
  • adj. lacking in strength or firmness or resilience
  • Equivalent
    negligent    regular    unconstipated    sagging    floppy    drooping    tensionless    loose-jointed    droopy    limp   
    Cross Reference
    loose   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dissolute    licentious    vague    unrestrained    loose    unconfined    slack    weak    equivocal    diarrheal   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Acts    Jacks    Macs    Max    Sachs    Saxe    acts    antitax    attacks    ax   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    negligent    inefficient    lenient    stringent    wasteful    inaccurate    inattentive    corrupt    indolent    improvident