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Lax

Definitions: Lax

Lax

Adjective

1. Lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline".

2. (phonetics) pronounced with muscles relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet').

3. Not taut or rigid; not stretched or held tight; "a lax rope".

4. 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".

5. Tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk spoiling their children"; "procedures are lax and discipline is weak"; "too soft on the children".

6. Emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lax" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Lax

DomainDefinitions

Computing

LAX LAnguage eXample. A toy language used to illustrate compiler design. ["Compiler Construction", W.M. Waite et al, Springer 1984]. (1994-12-07). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Science

Loosely arranged. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Lax

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

LAX

EnglishLanternfishFood & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Lax

Synonyms: flaccid (adj), indulgent (adj), lenient (adj), limp (adj), loose (adj), slack (adj), soft (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: tense (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Lax

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Coherence

Adjective: nonadhesive, immiscible; incoherent, detached, loose, baggy, slack, lax, relaxed, flapping, streaming; disheveled; segregated, like grains of sand unconsolidated; uncombined;

Feebleness

Careless, slovenly, loose, lax (negligent); slipshod, slipslop; inexact; puerile, childish; flatulent; rambling; (diffuse).

Laxity

Adjective: lax, loose; slack; remiss; (careless); weak.

Undueness

Relax; (be lax); misbehave; (vice); misbecome.

Vice

Weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect; indiscrete; demoralizing, degrading.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Lax

English words defined with "lax": Buphthalmum salicifoliumCalifornia bluebell, Camphor tree, Cephalanthera rubraflaccidHeuchera americanaindulgentlawless, laxity, laxness, lenient, lesser twayblade, limp, Listera cordataopenPhacelia campanulariared helleborine, remissness, rock geraniumscarlet wisteria tree, Sesbania grandiflora, slack, softtangle orchidVague year, vegetable hummingbirdwide-open, woodland oxeye. (references)
Specialty definitions using "lax": TLAswarez. (references)
Etymologies containing "lax": laxative. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Lax" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (easy going, laissez-fair, lax, laxly, lose), Icelandic (salmon), Romanian (lax), Swedish (salmon).

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Commercial Usage: Lax

DomainTitle

Books

  • Differential Equations: LA Pietra 1996: Conference on Differential Equations Marking the 70th Birthdays of Peter Lax and Louis Nirenberg, July 3-7,) (reference)

  • Lax 94 (reference)

  • Recent Advances in Partial Differential Equations, Venice 1996: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of the 70th Birthdays of Peter D. Lax and Louis) (reference)

  • Wave Motion: Theory, Modelling, and Computation: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of the 60th Birthday of Peter D. Lax (Mathematical Sciences R) (reference)

  • When Prophecy Still Had a Voice: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Robert Lax (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Lax

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Sedum laxum, more commonly known as the Lax Stonecrop.Credit: Peter Zika.

Farshot of lax stonecrop (Sedum laxum).Credit: Peter Zika.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Lax

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

They watched his lax hands to see the fists form.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Lax

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Low pay also increases a lax attitude toward corruption. (references)

Lax compliance with the law has resulted in only limited access to most buildings. (references)

For example, in some seaside areas, hotels, shops and homes have been built according to the lax building codes that were once in effect. (references)

Children

Japan

The law was passed following heightened public attention to a growing problem of teenage prostitution and international criticism over the country's lax laws on child pornography. (references)

Colombia

The Constitution formally provides for free public education, which is compulsory between the ages of 6 and 15. An estimated 25 percent of children in this age group do not attend school, due to lax enforcement of truancy laws, inadequate classroom space, and economic pressures to provide income for the family. (references)

Civil Liberties

Chile

It is mandatory to teach the creed requested by parents, although enforcement is sometimes lax. (references)

Economic History

Kuwait

Payment discipline was lax and real economic losses common. (references)

Nigeria

The primary problem regarding Nigeria's regulatory system is lax and uneven enforcement. (references)

Zimbabwe

While Zimbabwe law also protects the rights of copyright holders, enforcement in this area is lax. (references)

Human Rights

Mexico

Just 4 days before Guzman's escape the CNDH alerted the Office of the Secretary of Public Security about the lax security at Puente Grande. (references)

Japan

However, public confidence remained low, and allegations persisted that the police and public safety commissions remained lax in investigating charges of police misconduct. (references)

Guyana

Many justice authorities and human rights activists say that due to rising crime and pressure from urban businesses, which are often the targets of criminals, the Government has taken a lax attitude toward investigation of alleged police abuses. (references)

Political Economy

GUATEMALA

While, enforcement of this requirement has been lax, compliance is increasing. (references)

Thailand

Enforcement of a broad range of laws and regulations by police continued to be noticeably lax. (references)

VENEZUELA

However, comprehensive legislation remains to be enacted and enforcement of IPR laws remains lax. (references)

Trade

Taiwan

Although a Taiwan law mandates reimbursement to healthcare providers at the actual costs of transaction, lax enforcement of this law has allowed generic producers to offer significant discounts. (references)

Bahrain

As a member of the Arab League, Bahrain is officially committed to enforcement, through its customs clearance procedures, of the primary aspect of the League's boycott of Israel, but enforcement is lax. (references)

Venezuela

The Venezuelan banking sector continues to recover from the serious financial crisis in the mid-1990's that affected more than 50 percent of the deposit base and is estimated to have cost the country between 15 percent and 18 percent of GDP. The crisis was the result of an economic recession, along with deregulation, lax bank supervision, directed lending, and poor credit practices. (references)

Travel

Honduras

Punctuality is more lax than in the U.S.; waiting is typical. (references)

Philippines

Filipinos tend to be lax in replying to RSVPs. Telephone follow-ups are best, about three days before. (references)

Kuwait

Good road surfaces, powerful cars and lax enforcement of traffic regulations combine to make speeding commonplace and driving very hazardous. (references)

Women

Albania

In the country's traditionally male-dominated society, cultural acceptance and lax police response resulted in most abuse going unreported. (references)

Worker Rights

Latvia

State authorities are lax in their enforcement of child labor laws. (references)

Syria

The enforcement of labor laws in rural areas also is more lax than it is in urban areas, where inspectors are concentrated. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Lax

"Lax" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lax" is used about 173 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%17323,656

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Lax

The following table summarizes the usage of "lax" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
LaxLast name1,00011,506
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Lax

Expressions using "lax": be lax lax bowels lax me! liable to a lax. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "lax": re-lax.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lax

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lax

2,266

lax parking

671

lax airport

494

lax hotel

187

lax car rental

184

lax shuttle

157

airport shuttle lax

125

lax airport parking

94

lax map

65

ex lax

59

lax long term parking

57

lax world

48

lax transportation

44

lax shuttle service

43

lax international airport

43

lax arrival

37

apartment lax

36

super shuttle lax

36

four point sheraton lax

30

lax max

30
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Modern Translations: Lax

Language Translations for "lax"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tolerues (indulgent, wide open), jokërkues, i turbullt (blank, cloudy, dim, dimmish, dreamy, dull, dusky, feculent, foggy, indistinct, misty, muddy, obscure, shadowy, thick, turbid, turbulent, vague, woozy), i shkujdesur (blind, carefree, careless, casual, cavalier, devil may care, downbeat, easy, easygoing, fast, forgetful, happy go lucky, heedless, improvident, inadvertent, incautious, inobservant, light hearted, lightsome, neglectful, negligent, remiss, slack, slaphappy, slipshod, thoughtless, traipse, trapes, unclean, unconcerned, unkempt, unladylike, unmindful, untidy), i pasaktë (erroneous, fallible, false, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, inexplicit, untrue, vague), i lëshuar (abandoned, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, funky, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, licentious, limp, loose, nerveless, pendulous, profligate, slack, slatternly, slipshod, weary, wretched), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مهلهل (dilapidated, flimsy, rocky, scruffy, sleazy, slight, slim, thin, tumbledown), ‏منحل (degenerate, degenerated, deteriorated, disintegrator, unfastened, untied), ‏متناثر (dispersed, scattered, sparse, sprinkled, strewn about), ‏مصاب بإسهال (have the run), ‏لين (clemency, ductile, elastic, flabbiness, flabby, flaccid, flaccidity, flexible, gentleness, laxity, lenience, leniency, limp, limpness, loose, make flexible, make soft, make tender, malleable, manageable, mellow, mildness, moderate, plastic, plasticize, pliable, pliant, resilient, soft, soften, supple, temper, tender, yielding), ‏غامض (abstruse, ambiguous, cloudy, deep, dim, double faced, dreamy, enigmatic, evasive, fuzzy, grave, hazy, impenetrable, incomprehensible, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inscrutable, intangible, magic, magical, misty, mysterious, mystic, nebulous, obscure, occult, opaque, puzzling, recondite, secret, shady, sketchy, slippery, sloppy, uncertain, unintelligible, vague, woolly), ‏رخو (flabby, flaccid, limp, loose, quaggy, slack, sluggish, soft). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

рехав (feathery, loose, loose-textured, straggling), редовен (full time, goer, licensed, normal, ordinary, regular, routine, stated), развратен (abandoned, debauched, dissolute, fast, filthy, goatish, immoral, impure, lecherous, lewd, lickerish, perverted, profligate, rakish, reprobate, scarlet, sporty), разпуснат (dissolute, fast, free, gay, incontinent, loose, profligate, raffish, rakish, self-abandoned, ungovernable, unregenerated, unsteady, wanton), халтав (loose, slack), хлабав (loose, slack), отпуснат (enervate, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, indolent, lackadaisical, languid, limp, loose, lymphatic, nerveless, sinewless, slack, soft, soppy, spiritless, untight), неточен (improper, inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite, inexact, loose, unfaithful, untrue, wide, wrong), небрежен (careless, casual, floppy, heedless, loose, neglectful, neglige, negligent, perfunctory, ragged, raunchy, regardless, remiss, skimpy, slack, slapdash, slipshod, slipslop, sloppy, slovenly, thoughtless, unheeding, untidy), пушена шведска сьомга, пушена норвежка сьомга, изговарян без напрежение. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

松驰 (slack, slacken, Slackened, slackening, slacks), (negligent), (follow, from, obey, observe, second cousin, unhurried, yielding). (various references)

   

Czech

  

ledabylý (careless, casual, cavalier, remiss, slapdash, untidy), ležérní (casual, easygoing), laxní (casual, dilatory, flabby, half hearted, slack), volný (clear, comfortable, for hire, free, liberal, loose, open, slack, spare, svelte, unattached, unoccupied, unrestrained, vacant), vágní (dim, hazy, impressionistic, sloppy, vague), uvolnìný (disengaged, laid back, loose, relaxed, released, unbuttoned, unstrung), nedbalý (careless, casual, neglectful, negligent, offhand, remiss, slack, sloppy, slovenly, unmindful). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

لینت مزاج , لخت (Bare, Naked, Nude, Picked, Stodgy), ول کردن (Leave, Let, Quit, Relinquish, Unbridle, Unhand, Unloose), سهل انگار (Inconsiderate, Nonchalant), سست (Atonic, Effeminate, Feckless, Floppy, Frail, Groggy, Inactive, Indolent, Insecure, Languid, Lethargic, Loose, Mild, Rattletrap, Remiss, Rickety, Shaky, Slack, Sleazy, Slender, Slothful, Supine, Tardy, Tepid, Torpid, Weak), اهمال کار (Dawdle, Nonchalant), رهاکردن (Abandon, Bolt, Disentangle, Dispossess, Drop, Extricate, Leave, Let, Liberate, Loose, Release, Surrender, Unbend, Uncork, Uncouple, Unfasten, Unfix, Unfold, Unhand, Unhook, Unleash, Unloose, Unsling), شل کردن (Jellify, Loosen, Relax, Slack, Unbend, Unbind, Unbrace, Unhitch, Unhook, Unloose, Unstring), شل (Baggy, Knockkneed, Limp, Loose, Ramshackle, Slack). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

löyhä (lax irregular, loose, slack). (various references)

   

French

  

lâché, vague, relâché, mou (lank). (various references)

   

German

  

locker (cool, fast, fluffily, fluffy, frothy, laxly, light, limber, loose, loosely, loose-packed, open, relaxed, relaxedly, slack, spongy, unconstrained, unformal, ungirt). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χαλαρόσ (flaccid, limp, listless, loose, slack), ευκοίλιοσ (loose), αμελήσ (careless, neglectful, negligent, remiss). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מתיר י (indulgent, permissive), אלתית (salmon), רפיון מעים, רפ" (feeble, flabby, flaccid, languid, limp, limping, loose, slack, soft, weak). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

laza (accommodating, easy, flimsy, flipperty-flopperty, floppy, incompact, loose, open, running, slack, sleazy, sloppy), feslett (abandoned, lewd, libertine, loose, profligate), fegyelmezetlen (disorderly, inordinate, insubordinate, irrepressible, obstreperous, undisciplined), ernyedt (flabby, flaccid, floppy, languid, sloppy, swooned, swooning, to feel slack). (various references)

   

Italian

  

trascurato (careless, forlorn, inaccurate, neglected, neglectful, negligent, perfunctory, remiss, slovenly), rilassato (loose, relaxed, slackens, unwinds), negligente (careless, inadvertent, inattentive, negligent, remiss, slack, slapdash, slaphappy), molle (crummy, feeble, flabby, soft, squashy, tender, tongs, weak). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

まりの無い (loose, slack), まりのない (loose, slack), 手緩い (lenient, slow). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しまりのない (loose, slack), てぬるい (lenient, slow). (various references)

   

Manx

  

neuchurrymagh (careless, inattentive, insouciant), feayshlit (loose). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

slapp (flabby, floppy, limp). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

axlay

   

Portuguese

  

lasso, vago (empty, faraway lands, fuzzy, general, half-light, hazy, indeclinable, indelibility, indescribable, indeterminate, jumbled up, loose, nebulous, neutral country, remote, spare, transcendental, vacant, vague), salmão escandinavo, indistinto (dim, fuzzy, he, inartificial, incomparable, indistinct, misunderstand, mum, nebulous, thick, tight lipped), frouxo (bleak, flaccid, floppy, free for all, incompact, languid, lanolin, loose, sloppy link), diarréia (diarrhea, diarrhoea, lay, looseness), bambo (floppy), ambíguo (ambiguous, double, double-barrelled, double-minded, equivocal), advogado especializado em imigração. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

lax, vai (alack, alas, fie, heigh-ho, lack, my, oh, oh dear, oh me, ouch, well, woe), vag (dim, distant, dull, dusty, evasive, evasively, faint, general, hazy, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, loose, loosely, misty, muddy, nebulous, remote, shadowy, sketchy, slight, vague, washy), uşor (downhill, easily, easy, facile, fluffy, gauzy, gentle, glib, gossamer, jamb, light, light of foot, lightly, lightsome, rate, readily, ready, running, simple, slight, small, soft, superficial, swimmingly, thin, with a wet finger), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), pajişte (grass plot, green, greensward, lawn, Lea, mead, meadow, sward), nu mai spune (gad, well, what a story, yah, you don't mean it, you don't say so), neprecis (doubtful, dusty, loose, neutral), neclar (blind, cloudy, confused, dark, darkly, difficult, diffuse, dim, dull, feeble, foggy, gloomily, hazy, inarticulate, indistinct, inexplicit, muddy, obscurely, vague, vaguely), moale (apathetic, apathetical, doughy, flabby, flexible, invertebrate, languid, languidly, light, limp, limply, mellow, mild, milk and water, pillowy, pulpy, silky, slack, slacky, sloppy, smooth, soft, supine, tame, tender, thawy, velvety, weak, yielding), ia te uitã (hullo), flasc (flabby, flaccid, limp, soft), corupt (corrupt, depraved, prostitute, rotten, scrofulous, venal), îndoielnic (ambiguous, arguable, debatable, doubtful, in doubt, otiose, squint, suspicious, uncertain). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

небрежный (careless, casual, devil-may-care, harum scarum, heedless, inadvertent, inexact, loose, loose translation, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, perfunctory, ragged, remiss, scratchy, slipshod, sloppy, unheeding, unkempt). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

labav (languorous, limp, loose, remiss, slack, unfixed, untight), olabavljen (laid back, relaxed). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

laxo, poco exigente, indisciplinado (disorderly, undisciplined), flojo (dull, faded, fading, feeble, flabby, flagging, floppy, fluffily, forceless, gentle breeze, groggy, idle, lame, limber, limp, loose, loosely, milk and water, nerveless, sagging, slack, sluggish, soft, supine, thin, threadbare, tipsily, unfirm, unformal, ungirt, unsteadily, watery, weak, wishy washy, withered, wobbly, wonky). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

slapp (flabby, flaccid, flaggy, lackadaisical, languid, limp, pithless, slack, wet), lös (cranky, detachable, floating, friable, loose, movable, moveable, pulpy, separate, short). (various references)

   

Thai

  

หลวม, ซึ่งไม่เข้มงว", ซึ่งออกเสียงไม่เกร็งลิ้น. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yumuşak (benignant, bland, ductile, easygoing, effeminate, flabby, flaccid, floppy, gentle, heartthrob, kid glove, kindly, lenient, light, limp, malleable, mellow, mild, pulpy, smooth, soft, soft boiled, spongy, supple, tender, velvet, yielding), umursamaz (conscience-proof, devil may care, disregardful, harum scarum, insensible, light, neglectful, negligent, reckless, slapdash, thickskinned, unconcerned, unheedful), gevşek (airy, crank, drooping, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, halfhearted, laidback, limp, listless, loose, nonrigid, non-rigid, slack, slouching, slouchy, supine, unstuck), dikkatsiz (careless, freewheeling, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, incurious, listless, mindless, regardless, remiss, slipshod, unaware, unheedful, unheeding, unobservant, unregardful, unseeing, unwary), belirsiz (ambiguous, backhanded, clouded, cloudy, cloudyly, dubious, dusty, equivocal, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, in the balance, indefinable, indefinite, indescribable, indeterminate, indistinct, inglorious, misty, obscure, off color, off colour, precarious, shadowy, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undetermined, unsettled, vague). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

слабкий (bedrid, characterless, crank, delicate, faint, feeble, flagging, languishing, limp, nerveless, one horse, pale, queasy, slack, tender, tenuous, weak, weakly), розхитаний (crank, cranky, doddered, haywire, rattletrap, rickety), нещільний (leaky), недбалий (careless, casual, dishonest, heedless, inattentive, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, oscitant, overly, slovenly, unguarded). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

lỏng lẻo (loosely), không chặt chẽ; không nghiêm. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

llac (loose, slack). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Lax

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

dissolutus, laxa, laxate, laxati, laxe, laxus, soluta, soluti, solutis, solutum, solutus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Lax

Derivations

Words beginning with "lax": laxation, laxations, laxative, laxatives, laxer, laxest, laxities, laxity, laxly, laxness, laxnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "lax": curtalax, flax, galax, gravlax, overlax, parallax, relax, smilax, toadflax. (additional references)

Words containing "lax": anaphylaxes, anaphylaxis, blaxploitation, blaxploitations, chemoprophylaxes, chemoprophylaxis, claxon, claxons, curtalaxes, flaxen, flaxes, flaxier, flaxiest, flaxseed, flaxseeds, flaxy, galaxes, galaxies, galaxy, klaxon, klaxons, metagalaxies, metagalaxy, morphallaxes, morphallaxis, parallaxes, phylaxis, phylaxises, prophylaxes, prophylaxis, protogalaxies, protogalaxy, relaxant, relaxants, relaxation, relaxations, relaxed, relaxedly, relaxedness, relaxednesses, relaxer, relaxers, relaxes, relaxin, relaxing, relaxins, smilaxes, toadflaxes, trophallaxes, trophallaxis, unrelaxed. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Lax" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alax, alox, alx, Alxi, blax, eax, elax, glax, glix, ilax, Klax, laa, lact, laf, laggs, laix, Laj, laks, lal, lanx, laq, larx, lasx, lau, Laux, Laxa, laxe, laxi, laxs, laxt, laxy, laz, Leix, lenx, leox, Lexa, lexy, liax, likx, lix, lixa, lixo, lixs, lja, loax, loxa, loxi, loxo, loxu, loxy, lux, luxh, lxxiv, lza, olix, plax. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Lax"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "lax" (pronounced la"ks)
4l a" k sblacks, flax, lacks, plaques, relax, slacks.
3-a" k santitax, attacks, ax, axe, backs, cracks, fax, hacks, jacks, knacks, macks, Macs, Max, packs, pacs, Pax, pretax, quacks, racks, rax, sacks, sacs, sax, shacks, smacks, snacks, stacks, tacks, tax, tracks, wacks, wax, whacks.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Lax

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-l-x"

-1 letter: al, ax, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-l-x"
 

+1 letter: axal, axel, axil, axle, calx, falx, flax.

 

+2 letters: axels, axial, axile, axils, axled, axles, calix, calyx, coxal, exalt, flaxy, galax, latex, laxer, laxly, relax, xylan.

 

+3 letters: afflux, alexia, alexin, alkoxy, axilla, axlike, axonal, biaxal, calxes, claxon, climax, coaxal, exalts, exhale, flaxen, flaxes, galaxy, hallux, klaxon, larynx, laxest, laxity, lexica, luxate, oxalic, oxalis, oxtail, plexal, poleax, sexual, smilax, waxily, xenial, xylans.

 

+4 letters: abaxial, abaxile, adaxial, adnexal, affixal, alexias, alexine, alexins, alloxan, asexual, axially, axillae, axillar, axillas, axolotl, biaxial, boxhaul, calyxes, claxons, coalbox, coaxial, coxalgy, dextral, exactly, exalted, exalter, example, exclaim, exclave, exempla, exhaled, exhales, exilian, explain, explant, exposal, exuvial, fixable, flaxier, foxtail, galaxes, gravlax, hexapla, klaxons, latexes, laxness, lexical, lixivia, luxated, luxates, mailbox, maxilla, maximal, maxwell, mixable, overlax, oxalate, oxtails, oxysalt, phalanx, poleaxe, relaxed, relaxer, relaxes, relaxin, salpinx, saltbox, taxable, taxably, taxless, textual, toxical, uxorial, vexilla, waxbill, waxlike.

 

+5 letters: acetoxyl, affixial, affluxes, alexines, alkoxide, alloxans, amplexus, anthelix, apoplexy, axiality, axillars, axillary, axiology, axletree, axolotls, axonemal, axoplasm, bisexual, boxhauls, cacomixl, carboxyl, climaxed, climaxes, coxalgia, coxalgic, curtalax, dyslexia, epicalyx, exalters, exalting, exampled, examples, exarchal, exclaims, exclaves, excretal, exemplar, exequial, exergual, exhalant, exhalent, exhaling, exorable, exordial, expiable, explains, explants, exposals, external, exultant, fabliaux, flaxiest, flaxseed, flexagon, flexural, fluxgate, foxtails, galaxies, gloxinia, hexaplar, hexaplas, larynxes, laxation, laxative, laxities, lixivial, luxating, luxation, maxillae, maxillas, maximals, maxwells, monaxial, naloxone, oxalated, oxalates, oxalises, oxidable, oxysalts, parallax, phylaxis, plateaux, poleaxed, poleaxes, preaxial, prefixal, proximal, pyrexial, quadplex, relaxant, relaxers, relaxing, relaxins, rouleaux, saxatile, sexually, siloxane, smallpox, smilaxes, subaxial, suffixal, tableaux, taxables, taxingly, textural, toadflax, triaxial, uniaxial, unsexual, vexillar, waxbills, waxplant, xylocarp.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Lax


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 61 78

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    .-    -..-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100001 01111000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#97 &#120

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0061 0078

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

466790

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Names: Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Translations: Ancient
14. Abbreviations
15. Acronyms
16. Derivations
17. Rhymes
18. Anagrams
19. Orthography
20. Bibliography


  

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