Lax

Adjective

 * 1) lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
 * The rules are fairly lax, but you have to know which ones you can bend.
 * 1) loose; not tight or taut.
 * The rope fell lax.
 * 1) lacking care; neglectful, negligent

Synonyms

 * permissive, lenient
 * loose, slack

Antonyms

 * strict
 * taut, tight

Noun

 * 1) lacrosse

Adverbs for Lax
surprisingly; inscrutably; mysteriously; deliberately; criminally; negligently; leniently; indulgently; lamentably; incomprehensibly; regrettably; terribly;  disastrously; calamitously; scandalously; outrageously; atrociously; dangerously; ominously; carelessly; languidly; lazily; indifferently; unusually; unwontedly; habitually; inexcus-ably; noticeably; obviously; apparently; dreadfully.

Thesaurus
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, tolerating, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unbigoted, unbridled, unchecked, uncircumspect, unclear, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconstrained, uncontrolled, uncurbed, undefined, undestined, undetermined, unenterprising, unfactual, unforced, ungoverned, unguarded, uninhibited, unmastered, unmeasured, unmindful, unmuzzled, unplain, unprecise, unprohibitive, unreined, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unrigorous, unrounded, unruly, unspecified, unstressed, unsubdued, unsuppressed, untighten, unwary, unwatchful, vague, veiled, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, wanton, wayward, weak, whorish, wide, wild, work-shy

Etymology
From laxus:

Adjective

 * Armenian: մեղմ
 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: laxiste
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, rugalmas


 * Italian:, lassista
 * Russian:, необязательный
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Italian:, , lasso, lento, lasco


 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * French: laxiste


 * Italian: trascurato, negligente

Noun

 * 1) The edible wild purslane plant.

Adjective

 * 1) lax
 * 2)  easy, loose

Noun
lax


 * 1) salmon

Derived terms

 * laxbleikur, laxbleik , laxbleikt :
 * laxbleikur litur

Noun
lax


 * 1) salmon
 * 2)  a bill with nominal value 1000 kronor or the corresponding amount of money

Derived terms

 * laxrosa