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)
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. - REMISSLY
In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly. - WANTLESS
Having no want; abundant; fruitful. - 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.