Definitions for LAX

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LAX lax

Spelling: [laks]

IPA: /læks/

Lax is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in LAX (alx).

Definitions for LAX

adjective

1. not strict or severe; careless or negligent:
2. loose or slack; not tense, rigid, or firm:
3. not rigidly exact or precise; vague:
4. open, loose, or not retentive, as diarrheal bowels.
5. (of a person) having the bowels unusually loose or open.
6. open or not compact; having a loosely cohering structure; porous:
7. Phonetics. (of a vowel) articulated with relatively relaxed tongue muscles. Compare tense1 (def 4).

Origin of LAX

1350-1400; Middle English Latin laxus loose, slack, wide; akin to languēre to languish; cognate with Old English slæc slack¹

Examples for LAX

In the age of the Internet and in our lax regulatory environment, there are more quacks than ever before.

If lax guns laws and more guns overall made people safer, the United States would be the safest place in the world.

"A little too lax, also, for the proprieties of English life," added Lady Vyner.

Their bodies were so lax that their short weekly promenade to the cemetery exhausted them.

Their discipline was lax, and many of them had left their posts, and gone off into the town.

We are lax, indeed, but possibly that is why we are so kind.

Conservatives have attacked the lax security under Obama, even straining to tie the threat to ISIS.

It is also quite easy to drive from California to Nevada, which also has lax gun laws.

If any one imagines that this law is lax, let him keep its commandment one day.

Blame for the deaths fell on lax safety measures, which allowed the victims to get too near to the test site.