1. (a.) Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; a lax standard of discipline\; lax fiber.

2. (v. t.) Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal.

3. (v. t.) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.

4. (n.) A looseness; diarrhea.

Micawberish Paphian abandoned accented accepting admissive aleatoric aleatory allowing alveolar amorphous apical apico-alveolar apico-dental approximate approximative articulated assimilated back backward bagging baggy barytone behindhand bilabial blobby blurred blurry bone-lazy broad broad-minded cacuminal cadging careless central cerebral chambering chance chancy chaotic checked clement close compassionate confused consenting consonant consonantal continuant culpably negligent dallying dangling delaying delinquent dental derelict dilatory dillydallying disordered disregardful dissimilated do-nothing doless dorsal dronish drony drooping ease ease off easy easygoing ergophobic faineant flabby flaccid flapping flat flimsy floppy foggy foot-dragging forbearant forbearing forgetful forgiving freethinking front fuzzy general gentle glide glossal glottal go-go good-for-nothing guttural hanging hard hazy heavy high hit-or-miss humane ill-defined immoderate impotent imprecise inaccurate inadvertent inattentive inchoate incoherent incontinent incorrect indecisive indefinable indefinite indeterminable indeterminate indifferent indistinct indolent indulgent inexact intemperate intonated irrepressible labial labiodental labiovelar lackadaisical laggard lagging laissez-faire lateral latitudinarian lazy lenient liberal libertarian libertine licentious light limp lingering lingual liquid loitering loose loose-moraled loosen low merciful mid mild moderate monophthongal muted narrow nasal nasalized neglectful neglecting negligent nonaggressive noninterfering nonprohibitive nonrestrictive nonspecific oblivious obscure occlusive of easy virtue of loose morals off-guard open open-minded orderless out of control out of hand out of line out of plumb out of square out of true overindulgent overly permissive overpermissive oxytone palatal palatalized parasitic patient permissive permitting pharyngeal pharyngealized phonemic phonetic phonic pitch pitched posttonic procrastinating procrastinative procrastinatory promiscuous rampant random regardless reinless relax relaxed remiss retroflex rickety riotous rounded rubbery scamping scrounging semivowel shadowed forth shadowy shaky shapeless shiftless shuffling skimping slack slacken slighting slipshod sloppy slothful slow sluggish slurring soft sonant sponging stochastic stopped streaming stressed strong suffering surd sweeping syllabic tender tense thick throaty tolerant