Word Meanings - LAX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: LAX

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 "æternus" itself is sometimes of a lax signification. Jortin. 3. Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal. Syn. -- Loose; slack; vague; unconfined; unrestrained; dissolute; licentious.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LAX)

• Flaccid
• Flabby
• limber
• lax
• tabid
• Lank
• Lean
• loose
• slender
• slim
• long
• rawboned
• Licentious
• Voluptuous
• dissolute
• rakish
• debauched
• self-indulgent
• profligate
• unbridled
• Remiss
• Slack
• careless
• negligent
• i attentive
• wanting
• flow
• slothful
• idle
• dilatory
• tardy
• remissful
• Loose
• weak
• remiss
• backward
• indiligent
• slow

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LAX)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain

Related words: (words related to LAX)

• REMISS
  Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.
• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• REMISSLY
  In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• TABID
  Affected by tabes; tabetic. In tabid persons, milk is the bset restorative. Arbuthnot. -- Tab"id*ly, adv. -- Tab"id*ness, n.
• RAKISH
  Dissolute; lewd; debauched. The arduous task of converting a rakish lover. Macaulay.
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• REMISSORY
  Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.
• DEBAUCHMENT
  The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• REMISSIVE
  Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.
• DISSOLUTE
  1. With nerves unstrung; weak. Spenser. 2. Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley. Syn. -- Uncurbed;
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• FLACCID
  Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh. Religious profession . . . has become flacced. I. Taylor. -- Flac"cid*ly, adv. -- Flac"cid*ness, n.
• DEBAUCHNESS
  Debauchedness.
• REMISSIBLE
  Capable of being remitted or forgiven. Feltham.
• BACKWARD; BACKWARDS
  1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. 2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. 3. On the back, or with the back downward. Thou wilt fall backward. Shak. 4. Toward, or in, past time or events;
• DEBAUCH
  To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army. Learning not debauched by ambition. Burke.
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• FORSLACK
  To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
• TETRAKISHEXAHEDRON
  A tetrahexahedron.
• AIR-SLACKED
  Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.
• UNFASTEN
  To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.