lax
adjective/læks/
/læks/
- (disapproving) not strict, severe or careful enough about work, rules or standards of behaviour synonym slack, careless
- lax security/discipline
- a lax attitude to health and safety regulations
- (of parts of the body) relaxed
- Her body went completely lax in his arms.
- The glass dropped from his lax fingers onto the floor.
- (phonetics) (of a speech sound) produced with the muscles of the speech organs relaxed opposite tense
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘loose’, relating to the bowels): from Latin laxus.
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