Dictionary Definition
lax adj
1 lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and
slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending
classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline" [syn: slack]
2 pronounced with muscles relatively relaxed
(e.g., the vowel sound in `bet') [ant: tense]
3 not taut or rigid; not stretched or held tight;
"a lax rope" [ant: tense]
4 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" [syn: flaccid, limp, slack]
5 tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk
spoiling their children"; "procedures are lax and discipline is
weak"; "too soft on the children" [syn: indulgent, lenient, soft]
6 emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels"
[syn: loose]
User Contributed Dictionary
see LAX
English
Etymology
From laxusPronunciation
- Rhymes: -æks
Adjective
Translations
loose; not tight or taut
- Finnish: löysä
- Russian: ненатянутый
- Spanish: flojo, suelto
- Swedish: lös
not strict; lenient; allowing for deviation
Dacian
Noun
lax- The edible wild purslane plant.
Icelandic
Noun
laxDerived terms
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
laxDerived terms
laxrosa
Extensive Definition
LAX or Lax may refer to:
- Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX), Los Angeles' main airport
- Los Angeles Union Station, Los Angeles' main train depot (Amtrak station code: LAX)
- Lax, Switzerland, a municipality of the canton of Valais
- Los Angeles Xtreme, former American Football team
- Lacrosse, a sport
- Latin American Exchange, a professional wrestling stable
- L.A.X., an upcoming studio album from rapper The Game
- LAX (TV series), a short-lived 2004-2005 television series set in LAX airport
See also
lax in German: Lax
lax in Spanish: LAX
lax in French: LAX
lax in Italian: LAX
lax in Dutch: Lax
lax in Japanese: LAX
lax in Polish: LAX
lax in Romanian: Lax (dezambiguizare)
lax in Slovak: LAX
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Micawberish, Paphian, 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, 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, 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