Antonyms for lax

Grammar : Adj

Spell : laks

Phonetic Transcription : læks

Definition of lax

Origin : c.1400, "loose" (in reference to bowels), from Latin laxus "wide, loose, open," figuratively "loose, free, wide," from PIE root *(s)leg- "to be slack, be languid" (cf. Greek legein "to leave off, stop," lagos "hare," literally "with drooping ears," lagnos "lustful, lascivious," lagaros "slack, hollow, shrunken;" Latin languere "to be faint, weary," languidis "faint, weak, dull, sluggish, languid"). Of rules, discipline, etc., attested from mid-15c.

adj slack, remiss

Example sentences :

Their discipline was lax, and many of them had left their posts, and gone off into the town.
Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell

We are lax, indeed, but possibly that is why we are so kind.
Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown

If any one imagines that this law is lax, let him keep its commandment one day.
Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A little too lax, also, for the proprieties of English life," added Lady Vyner.
Extract from : « Luttrell Of Arran » by Charles James Lever

Their bodies were so lax that their short weekly promenade to the cemetery exhausted them.
Extract from : « Sacrifice » by Stephen French Whitman

Discipline was lax in those days, but we were all the better for it.
Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 26, 1916 » by Various

The precisian, they say, disapproved of Danton's lax and heedless courses.
Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) » by John Morley

For all this, interest in the rainmaker's efforts did not lax.
Extract from : « Trail's End » by George W. Ogden

Possibly it was not that the Germans were too severe, but that we were too lax.
Extract from : « The War in South Africa » by Arthur Conan Doyle

I loathed the lax, cheap honor of the world and its hypocrisy.
Extract from : « Man and Maid » by Elinor Glyn

Synonyms for lax

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