• emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels"
• lacking in rigor or strictness; "such Lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "Lax in attending classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline"
• tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk spoiling their children"; "procedures are Lax and discipline is weak"; "too soft on the children"
• 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"
• not taut or rigid; not stretched or held tight; "a Lax rope"
• pronounced with muscles relatively reLaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet'')

'Lax' in other languages