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lax
adjective
1 lax
Lacking in rigor or strictness:
— Such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable.
— Lax in attending classes.
synonym: slack.
Roget 47:
nonadhesive,
immiscible;
incoherent,
detached,
loose,
baggy,
slack,
lax,
relaxed,
flapping,
streaming;
disheveled;
segregated,
like grains of sand unconsolidated
etc.
231,
uncombined
etc.
48;
noncohesive†.
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Roget 945:
vicious;
sinful;
sinning
etc.
v.;
wicked,
iniquitous,
immoral,
unrighteous,
wrong,
criminal;
naughty,
incorrect;
unduteous†,
undutiful.
unprincipled,
lawless,
disorderly,
contra bonos mores [Lat.],
indecorous,
unseemly,
improper;
dissolute,
profligate,
scampish;
unworthy;
worthless;
desertless†;
disgraceful,
recreant;
reprehensible,
blameworthy,
uncommendable;
discreditable,
disreputable;
Sadistic.
base,
sinister,
scurvy,
foul,
gross,
vile,
black,
grave,
facinorous†,
felonious,
nefarious,
shameful,
scandalous,
infamous,
villainous,
of a deep dye,
heinous;
flagrant,
flagitious;
atrocious,
incarnate,
accursed.
Mephistophelian,
satanic,
diabolic,
hellish,
infernal,
stygian,
fiendlike†,
hell-born,
demoniacal,
devilish,
fiendish.
miscreated†,
misbegotten;
demoralized,
corrupt,
depraved.
evil-minded,
evil-disposed;
ill-conditioned;
malevolent
etc.
907;
heartless,
graceless,
shameless,
virtueless;
abandoned,
lost to virtue;
unconscionable;
sunk in iniquity,
lost in iniquity,
steeped in iniquity.
incorrigible,
irreclaimable,
obdurate,
reprobate,
past praying for;
culpable,
reprehensible
etc.
(guilty)
947.
unjustifiable;
indefensible,
inexcusable;
inexpiable,
unpardonable,
irremissible†.
weak,
frail,
lax,
infirm,
imperfect;
indiscrete;
demoralizing,
degrading.
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Polish: niedbały, nieporządny
2 lax
Pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet').
3 lax
Lacking in firmness or tension; not taut.
4 lax
Emptying easily or excessively.
synonym: loose.
Roget 575:
feeble,
bald,
tame,
meager,
jejune,
vapid,
bland,
trashy,
lukewarm,
cold,
frigid,
poor,
dull,
dry,
languid;
colorless,
enervated;
proposing,
prosy,
prosaic;
unvaried,
monotonous,
weak,
washy,
wishy-washy;
sketchy,
slight.
careless,
slovenly,
loose,
lax
(negligent)
460;
slipshod,
slipslop†;
inexact;
puerile,
childish;
flatulent;
rambling
etc.
(diffuse)
573.
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Roget 738:
lax,
loose;
slack;
remiss
etc.
(careless)
460;
weak.
relaxed;
licensed;
reinless†,
unbridled;
anarchical;
unauthorized
etc.
(unwarranted)
925;
adespotic†.
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