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
- 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
- any way
- asleep on job
- behindhand
- broad
- careless
- casual
- delinquent
- derelict
- devil-may-care
- disregardful
- easygoing
- flaccid
- forgetful
- general
- imprecise
- inaccurate
- indefinite
- indifferent
- inexact
- lenient
- neglectful
- negligent
- nonspecific
- oblivious
- overindulgent
- paying no mind
- regardless
- shapeless
- slipshod
- sloppy
- soft
- unmindful
- vague
- yielding
Based on : Thesaurus.com - Gutenberg.org - Dictionary.com - Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019