Lax \Lax\ (l[a^]ks), a. [Compar. Laxer (l[a^]ks"[~e]r);
   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.
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            The flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy.
                                                  --Ray.
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   2. Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague;
      equivocal.
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            The discipline was lax.               --Macaulay.
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            Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in
            matters of the passions.              --J. A.
                                                  Symonds.
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            The word "[ae]ternus" itself is sometimes of a lax
            signification.                        --Jortin.
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   3. Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
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   Syn: Loose; slack; vague; unconfined; unrestrained;
        dissolute; licentious.
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	Lax \Lax\, n.
   A looseness; diarrhea.
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	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]

	

	316 Moby Thesaurus words for "lax":
   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

	

	LAX
     
        LAnguage eXample.
     
        A toy language used to illustrate compiler design.
     
        ["Compiler Construction", W.M. Waite et al, Springer 1984].
     
        (1994-12-07)

	

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