Lax /(lăks)/
Lax
a.
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Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.
The flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy.
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Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal.
The discipline was lax.
Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions.
The word “æternus” itself is sometimes of a lax signification.
- Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
Lax
n.
- A looseness; diarrhea.