lax, loose
(adjective) emptying easily or excessively; “loose bowels”
lax, slack
(adjective) lacking in rigor or strictness; “such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable”; “lax in attending classes”; “slack in maintaining discipline”
lax
(adjective) lacking in firmness or tension; not taut; “a lax rope”
lax
(adjective) pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in ‘bet’)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
LAX (uncountable)
IATA airport code for Los Angeles International Airport.
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lax (plural laxes)
(now, chiefly, UK dialectal, Scotland) A salmon.
lax (comparative laxer, superlative laxest)
Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
Loose; not tight or taut.
Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
(archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
(maths) Describing an associative monoidal functor.
• (lenient, not strict): permissive, lenient, relaxed
• (loose, not tight): loose, slack
• (lacking care): blameworthy, lash, negligent, remiss, reprehensible
• (lenient, not strict): strict
• (loose, not tight): taut, tight
lax (uncountable)
(slang) Lacrosse.
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Lax (plural Laxes)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Lax is the 12766th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2417 individuals. Lax is most common among White (82.91%) and Black/African American (12.37%) individuals.
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Source: Wiktionary
Lax, a. [Compar. Laxer; superl. Laxest.] Etym: [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 "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.
Lax, n.
Definition: A looseness; diarrhea.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
