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Meaning and definition for "lax" word

[adjective] emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels"
[adjective] lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline"
[adjective] tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk spoiling their children"; "procedures are lax and discipline is weak"; "too soft on the children"
[adjective] 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"
[adjective] not taut or rigid; not stretched or held tight; "a lax rope"
[adjective] (phonetics) pronounced with muscles relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet')
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\Lax\, a. [Compar. {Laxer}; 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. The flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy. --Ray. 2. Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal. The discipline was lax. --Macaulay. Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions. --J. A. Symonds. The word ``[ae]ternus'' itself is sometimes of a lax signification. --Jortin. 3. Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal. Syn: Loose; slack; vague; unconfined; unrestrained; dissolute; licentious.
\Lax\, n. A looseness; diarrhea.

Synonyms for lax

drooping, droopy, flaccid, floppy, indulgent, lenient, limp, loose, loose-jointed, negligent, permissive, regular, relaxed, sagging, slack, soft, tensionless, unconstipated, weak

Antonyms: tense

Related terms: accepting, barytone, blurry, central, chambering, close, dental, dilatory, disordered, disregardful, dorsal, foot-dragging, glide, glossal, hanging, humane, incoherent, indeterminable, lagging, loosen, muted, out of square, parasitic, permitting, phonemic, scrounging, skimping, unreserved, unrestrictive, unstressed

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Let's analyse "lax" as pure text. This string has Three letters in One syllable and One vowel. 33.3% of vowels is 5.3% less then average English word. Written in backwards: XAL. Average typing speed for these characters is 840 milliseconds. [info]

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Morse code: .-.. .- -..-

Numerology

Hearts desire number calculated from vowels: lax: 1 = 1, reduced: 1 . and the final result is One.
Destiny number calculated from all letters: lax: 3 + 1 + 6 = 10, reduced: 1, and the final result is One.

Tarot cards

Letter Num. Tarot c. Intensity Meaning
A (1) 1 Magician Creative, Inventive, Intuitive
L (1) 12 Hanged Man Leader, Teacher, Healer, Decisive
X (1) 24 Queen of Wands Dependent, Caring, Sensual, Loving

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