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Definitions for lax:

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Lax \Lax\ (l[a^]ks), a. [Compar. Laxer (l[a^]ks"[~e]r); superl. Laxest.] [L. laxus Cf. Laches, Languish, Lease, v. t., Leash.] 1. Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber. [1913 Webster] The flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy. --Ray. [1913 Webster] 2. Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal. [1913 Webster] The discipline was lax. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions. --J. A. Symonds. [1913 Webster] The word "[ae]ternus" itself is sometimes of a lax signification. --Jortin. [1913 Webster] 3. Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal. [1913 Webster] Syn: Loose; slack; vague; unconfined; unrestrained; dissolute; licentious. [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Lax \Lax\, n. A looseness; diarrhea. [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 2.0 :
lax adj 1: lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline" [syn: slack] 2: pronounced with muscles relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet') [ant: tense] 3: not taut or rigid; not stretched or held tight; "a lax rope" [ant: tense] 4: lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; "flaccid muscles"; "took his lax hand in hers"; "gave a limp handshake"; "a limp gesture as if waving away all desire to know" G.K.Chesterton; "a slack grip" [syn: flaccid, limp, slack] 5: tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk spoiling their children"; "procedures are lax and discipline is weak"; "too soft on the children" [syn: indulgent, lenient, soft] 6: emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels" [syn: loose]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
316 Moby Thesaurus words for "lax": Micawberish, Paphian, abandoned, accented, accepting, admissive, aleatoric, aleatory, allowing, alveolar, amorphous, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, approximate, approximative, articulated, assimilated, back, backward, bagging, baggy, barytone, behindhand, bilabial, blobby, blurred, blurry, bone-lazy, broad, broad-minded, cacuminal, cadging, careless, central, cerebral, chambering, chance, chancy, chaotic, checked, clement, close, compassionate, confused, consenting, consonant, consonantal, continuant, culpably negligent, dallying, dangling, delaying, delinquent, dental, derelict, dilatory, dillydallying, disordered, disregardful, dissimilated, do-nothing, doless, dorsal, dronish, drony, drooping, ease, ease off, easy, easygoing, ergophobic, faineant, flabby, flaccid, flapping, flat, flimsy, floppy, foggy, foot-dragging, forbearant, forbearing, forgetful, forgiving, freethinking, front, fuzzy, general, gentle, glide, glossal, glottal, go-go, good-for-nothing, guttural, hanging, hard, hazy, heavy, high, hit-or-miss, humane, ill-defined, immoderate, impotent, imprecise, inaccurate, inadvertent, inattentive, inchoate, incoherent, incontinent, incorrect, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indifferent, indistinct, indolent, indulgent, inexact, intemperate, intonated, irrepressible, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, laissez-faire, lateral, latitudinarian, lazy, lenient, liberal, libertarian, libertine, licentious, light, limp, lingering, lingual, liquid, loitering, loose, loose-moraled, loosen, low, merciful, mid, mild, moderate, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, neglectful, neglecting, negligent, nonaggressive, noninterfering, nonprohibitive, nonrestrictive, nonspecific, oblivious, obscure, occlusive, of easy virtue, of loose morals, off-guard, open, open-minded, orderless, out of control, out of hand, out of line, out of plumb, out of square, out of true, overindulgent, overly permissive, overpermissive, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parasitic, patient, permissive, permitting, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, promiscuous, rampant, random, regardless, reinless, relax, relaxed, remiss, retroflex, rickety, riotous, rounded, rubbery, scamping, scrounging, semivowel, shadowed forth, shadowy, shaky, shapeless, shiftless, shuffling, skimping, slack, slacken, slighting, slipshod, sloppy, slothful, slow, sluggish, slurring, soft, sonant, sponging, stochastic, stopped, streaming, stressed, strong, suffering, surd, sweeping, syllabic, tender, tense, thick, throaty, tolerant, tolerating, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unbigoted, unbridled, unchecked, uncircumspect, unclear, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconstrained, uncontrolled, uncurbed, undefined, undestined, undetermined, unenterprising, unfactual, unforced, ungoverned, unguarded, uninhibited, unmastered, unmeasured, unmindful, unmuzzled, unplain, unprecise, unprohibitive, unreined, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unrigorous, unrounded, unruly, unspecified, unstressed, unsubdued, unsuppressed, untighten, unwary, unwatchful, vague, veiled, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, wanton, wayward, weak, whorish, wide, wild, work-shy

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) :
LAX LAnguage eXample. A toy language used to illustrate compiler design. ["Compiler Construction", W.M. Waite et al, Springer 1984]. (1994-12-07)

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