Lax (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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adjective, lax·er, lax·est.
  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. (of a vowel) articulated with relatively relaxed tongue muscles.
noun Informal.
  1. lacrosse: To handle my course load, I know I have to cut back on extracurricular activities, but no way am I giving up lax.
adjective
  1. lacking firmness; not strict
  2. lacking precision or definition
  3. not taut
  4. (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
  5. (of flower clusters) having loosely arranged parts
Lax (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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