Lax is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LAX in dictionary:

VERB:
• Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.
• Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal.
• Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
• make lax, loosen
NOUN:
• a kind of salmon
• lacrosse
• A looseness; diarrhea.
ADJECTIVE:
• slack or loose
• not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful
• (of the limbs or muscles) relaxed
• (of the bowels) loose.
• (of a speech sound, especially a vowel) pronounced with the vocal muscles relaxed.
• lacking in rigor or strictness
• pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet\')
• lacking in strength or firmness or resilience
• emptying easily or excessively
• not strict
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• not strict or stringent
• a vowel articulated with relatively relaxed muscles

Words related to LAX

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How to use LAX in a sentence

• It grows to 10 feet or 12 feet in height, and is usually of lax and slender growth, but perfectly hardy.
• He had three wives, and, so far as observation went, I should judge that most of the men present had imitated his voluptuous tastes and apparently lax morals.
• Well, of course it was impossible to be really strict so long as Germany was lax.
• It must be remembered that the enforcement Of certain laws, particularly in regard to child labour, is extremely lax in many States.
• Hamilton trusted so completely to the scouting party, and to the seemingly impassable state of the country, that his watch was very lax.
• Roman morals, which formerly were very strict, began to grow more lax, and in general the Roman civilization showed signs of decay.
• The most lax moralist counts a lie wrong, even when the motive is unselfish, and springs from the desire to give pleasure to those whom it is our duty to please.
• The probability of such a conflict grows stronger as we become more lax in pacific measures of defence, and show less determination to protect the German soil at all costs.
• The morality of the younger stages of life is always lax, if not licentious.
• Her soft mouth was lax and tremulous, and her gray eyes were more brilliant than the star yonder.
• Her hands lax in her lap, her blue eyes quietly intent upon the view, she lay back in her chair with as much confident unconcern as she might have shown in an opera box.
• Money could do much in those days of lax discipline, and the man who could pay and could give need have very few wants unsatisfied.
• If any one imagines that this law is lax, let him keep its commandment one day.
• In Ireland the habits of the common people are already too lax with regard to truth.
• The old minister, to his mind, had been Erastian and lax, weak in doctrine and in discipline of the fold.
• It is perfectly astonishing to observe the lax views which even really good men seem to have held on this subject in the middle part of the century.
• A too lax condition of the digestion would indicate that an excessive amount was being fed.
• Any excess of milk given at one time usually disturbs the digestion and is followed by too lax a condition of the bowels.
• Our laws were lax, and for a time nearly everybody, sane or insane, sound or diseased, was passed.
• Such a division of authority makes lax expenditure and bad management.
• The greater obstacle is negative, it lies in the want of stimulus, in the lax prosperity of most of the constituent states of such a union.
• It was an era of lax ideas regarding the marriage tie.
• They may be drawn towards or away from each other, they may vibrate like reeds or strings, and they may become lax or tense in the direction of their length.
• Nevertheless, Congress was far too lax, and followed too closely the example of its agents.
• All her muscles were lax, and every full curve of her body tended downward in response to the negligent pose.
• Even if he had not known them, it would have made little difference, because our sentries were so lax that the camp was always swarming with strangers.
• Lax this form of poetry undoubtedly is with Tennyson.
• And it is anything but pleasant in a time of war to come across such lax and unenergetic people as they proved to be.
• Perhaps he had been rather lax in his religious observances, or even disguised his Christianity from motives of interest.
• He may reform lax discipline or incorrect observances, but apparently not of his own authority but merely as an executive power enforcing the opinion of the higher clergy.

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