What is another word for lax?
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Pronunciation:
[ lˈaks], [ lˈaks], [ l_ˈa_k_s]
The word "lax" can be used to describe a lack of strictness or a relaxed attitude towards rules or regulations. Some synonyms for this term include lenient, permissive, indulgent, easygoing, and laid-back. Additionally, "lax" can also refer to something that is not tightly secured or is loose, such as a loosely fitting piece of clothing or an insecure lock. Synonyms for this definition include slack, loose, flimsy, baggy, and sloppy. Overall, using synonyms for "lax" can help to add variety and nuance to your writing while still accurately conveying the intended meaning.
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Similar words for lax:
- all (adjective)
- careless (adjective)
- chaotic (adjective)
- delinquent (adjective)
- derelict (adjective)
- dilatory (adjective)
- dissolute (adjective)
- easy (adjective)
- flabby (adjective)
- flaccid (adjective)
- forgetful (adjective)
- free (adjective)
- inactive (adjective)
- incoherent (adjective)
- indolent (adjective)
- irresponsible (adjective)
- laid-back (adjective)
- lax (adjective)
- leisurely (adjective)
- licentious (adjective)
- limp (adjective)
- loose (adjective)
- mild (adjective)
- negligent (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- permissive (adjective)
- procrastinating (adjective)
- profligate (adjective)
- promiscuous (adjective)
- regardless (adjective)
- relaxed (adjective)
- remiss (adjective)
- slack (adjective)
- soft (adjective)
- supine (adjective)
- tolerant (adjective)
- unconfined (adjective)
- unprofessional (adjective)
- unrestricted (adjective)
- vague (adjective)
- wanton (adjective)
- drooping (noun)
- droopy (noun)
- lax (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- loosen (verb)
- other relevant words (verb)
- relax (verb)
- slack/slacken (verb)
- other synonyms
- adhesive
- loosen
- other relevant words
- relax
- tolerant
Synonyms for Lax:
adj.
• all (adjective)- lax.
- unobservant,
- napping,
- injudicious,
- offhand,
- hasty,
- thoughtless,
- Absent-minded,
- heedless,
- unguarded,
- perfunctory,
- nonchalant,
- unconcerned,
- wasteful,
- inconsiderate,
- lackadaisical,
- cursory,
- unthinking,
- mindless,
- inadvertent,
- incautious,
- imprudent,
- indiscreet,
- reckless,
- indolent,
- improvident,
- unheeding.
- cluttered,
- discomposed,
- frenzied,
- disorderly,
- out of control,
- deranged,
- indefinite,
- unruly,
- muddled,
- perturbed,
- anarchical,
- incoherent,
- embroiled,
- disheveled,
- disconnected,
- inexact,
- undisciplined,
- disarrayed,
- disorganized,
- frantic,
- chaotic,
- insane,
- tumultuous,
- blurry,
- lawless,
- uneven,
- inconsistent,
- irregular,
- amorphous,
- jumbled,
- Disintegrated,
- deformed,
- fuzzy,
- tempestuous,
- rambunctious,
- messy,
- confused,
- formless,
- disordered,
- obscure,
- wild,
- inchoate,
- shapeless,
- indistinct,
- anarchistic.
- blameworthy,
- guilty,
- behind,
- red-handed,
- shabby,
- criminal,
- overdue,
- tardy,
- culpable,
- blamable,
- censurable,
- reprehensible,
- Procrastinating,
- offending,
- unpaid,
- faulty.
- laggard,
- late,
- Snail-like,
- Moratory,
- slowest,
- Delaying,
- sluggish,
- slow,
- unhurried,
- Loitering,
- Tarrying,
- snaillike,
- deliberate,
- lingering,
- Dallying,
- putting off,
- time-wasting,
- lazy,
- unhasty,
- backward.
- depraved,
- lascivious,
- corrupt,
- lewd,
- high living,
- evil,
- reprobate,
- raffish,
- debauched,
- unrestrained,
- unconstrained,
- lecherous,
- wayward,
- gone bad,
- in the fast lane,
- open,
- wicked,
- sybaritic,
- light,
- unprincipled,
- abandoned,
- nighthawk,
- on the take,
- intemperate,
- degenerate,
- swift,
- dissipated,
- fast and loose,
- rakish,
- vicious,
- night owl,
- libertine.
- biddable,
- accommodating,
- forbearing,
- naive,
- submissive,
- flexible,
- forgiving,
- tractable,
- temperate,
- compliant,
- compassionate,
- clement,
- gullible,
- sympathetic,
- Excusing,
- amenable,
- liberal,
- exploitable,
- gentle,
- charitable,
- Dupable,
- trusting,
- kindly,
- benign,
- mollycoddling,
- moderate,
- indulgent,
- mild,
- Condoning,
- Unoppressive,
- Pardoning,
- spoiling,
- susceptible,
- pampering.
- toneless,
- flexuous,
- tender,
- unfit,
- rusty,
- pendulous,
- floppy,
- out of shape,
- limp,
- enervated,
- hanging,
- sagging,
- Irresilient,
- gone to seed,
- out of condition.
- freest,
- on one's own,
- independent,
- unrestricted,
- at large,
- at liberty,
- unhampered,
- free spirited,
- freewheeling,
- on the loose,
- free-wheeling,
- untrammeled,
- on own,
- unengaged,
- free-spirited,
- off the hook.
- somnolent,
- do nothing,
- mothballed,
- in holding pattern,
- draggy,
- low key,
- supine,
- out of service,
- out of action,
- jobless,
- on hold.
- nonuniform,
- non-cohesive,
- disjointed,
- dispersed,
- sporadic,
- unconsolidated,
- divergent,
- broken,
- detached,
- disarticulated,
- nonadhesive,
- noncontiguous,
- discontinuous.
- illconsidered,
- fly by night,
- ill considered,
- devil may care,
- no account,
- un stable,
- most unanswerable,
- un stabler,
- un-predictable,
- ill-considered,
- un-stabler,
- un predictable,
- more uncareful,
- most uncareful,
- un-stable,
- un-careful,
- un stablest,
- more unanswerable,
- un accountable,
- un-stablest,
- noaccount,
- un answerable,
- un-accountable,
- un careful,
- un-answerable.
- devil-may-care,
- broad,
- Disregardful,
- casual,
- easygoing,
- nonspecific,
- indifferent,
- overindulgent,
- inaccurate,
- slipshod,
- general,
- unmindful,
- oblivious,
- any way,
- sloppy,
- paying no mind,
- yielding,
- lenient.
- dis orderly,
- swinging,
- more lickerish,
- more unmoral,
- dis-orderly,
- over sexed,
- more amoral,
- most lickerish,
- un curbed,
- oversexed,
- un-curbed,
- more uncurbed,
- un controllable,
- most oversexed,
- most uncurbed,
- over-sexed,
- un moral,
- in-continent,
- most unmoral,
- more satyric,
- in continent,
- most amoral,
- more oversexed,
- un-moral,
- incontinent,
- un-controllable,
- most satyric.
- unfastened,
- unshackled,
- Unhooked,
- unattached,
- unpinned,
- uncaged,
- unbolted,
- unbound,
- non-adherent,
- unlatched,
- unconfined,
- not fitting,
- non-coherent,
- unsecured.
- open-minded,
- benevolent,
- meek,
- peaceable,
- kind,
- insipid,
- broad-minded,
- quiet,
- even,
- amiable,
- cordial,
- libertarian,
- peaceful,
- sweet,
- genial.
- in curious,
- asleep switch,
- most unheedful,
- un heedful,
- in-curious,
- more discinct,
- most discinct,
- more unheedful,
- un-heedful.
- flabby,
- uncurbed,
- broadminded,
- licentious,
- nirvanic,
- fleeceable,
- delinquent,
- loose,
- amnemonic,
- airheaded,
- careless,
- Discinct,
- asleep on the job,
- soft,
- Lickerish,
- behindhand,
- inactive,
- amnesic,
- leisurely,
- any old way,
- unprofessional,
- Pococurante,
- Amphibological,
- slapdash,
- nonexpert,
- tolerant,
- out of it,
- unsuspicious,
- Deceivable,
- unfitting,
- Drony,
- easy,
- vague,
- easy-going,
- Uncircumspect,
- permissive,
- easy with,
- defaultant,
- unanswerable,
- nonobservant,
- in firm,
- easy going,
- irresponsible,
- remiss,
- asleep on job,
- profligate,
- imprecise,
- woolgathering,
- derelict,
- slack,
- negligent,
- amoral,
- unexplicit,
- Unburdensome,
- satyric,
- not on the job,
- uncareful,
- unmoral,
- dissolute,
- of easy virtue,
- easy on,
- unheedful,
- looking out window,
- flaccid,
- like an absent-minded professor,
- humoring,
- wanton,
- forgetful,
- slowgoing,
- undiscriminating,
- regardless,
- Deludable,
- asleep at switch,
- unreflective,
- promiscuous.
- most easy going,
- all owing,
- most approving,
- most easy-going,
- more latitudinarian,
- more easy-going,
- all-owing,
- open minded,
- more approving,
- latitudinarian,
- more allowing,
- most allowing,
- most latitudinarian,
- openminded,
- more easy going.
- in-discriminate,
- un discriminating,
- more pushover,
- un-discriminating,
- un-bridled,
- in discriminate,
- un bridled,
- more undiscriminating,
- most pushover,
- most undiscriminating.
- most nonobservant,
- un interested,
- in-sensitive,
- more disregarding,
- non observant,
- non-observant,
- more nonobservant,
- dis regarding,
- dis-regarding,
- un feeling,
- most disregarding,
- un-interested,
- in sensitive.
- under-standing,
- broad minded,
- un prejudiced,
- under standing,
- long suffering,
- free easy,
- un-prejudiced,
- longsuffering.
- in efficient,
- inefficient,
- in-experienced,
- non-expert,
- un professional,
- in-efficient,
- in-expert,
- un worthiest,
- un worthier,
- in-competent,
- in-adequate,
- in expert,
- more nonexpert,
- un trained,
- un-fitting,
- in adequate,
- most nonexpert,
- un-worthier,
- more amateur,
- in experienced,
- un-ethical,
- un worthy,
- most amateur,
- in competent,
- un-trained,
- non expert,
- more unfitting,
- most unfitting,
- un-suitable,
- un-worthiest,
- un-professional,
- un fitting,
- un suitable,
- un ethical.
- more blurred,
- most unexplicit,
- un settled,
- in determinate,
- un-clear,
- in-definite,
- un-clearest,
- most amphibological,
- un-sure,
- in-distinct,
- un clearest,
- illdefined,
- more generalized,
- un specified,
- un-intelligible,
- un-explicit,
- in distinct,
- most generalized,
- most bewildering,
- more bewildering,
- be-wildering,
- be wildering,
- in explicable,
- mis understood,
- un sure,
- most imprecise,
- in-explicable,
- un clear,
- in definite,
- un-specified,
- un-determined,
- un known,
- unspecified,
- more amphibological,
- ill defined,
- un explicit,
- more unexplicit,
- mis-understood,
- un-known,
- un-settled.
n.
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•
- abstracted,
- absent,
- vacantly,
- in a dream,
- distant,
- inattentive,
- spaced-out,
- preoccupied,
- in a world of your own.
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•
- merciful,
- unsupported,
- wobbly,
- accept,
- free-floating,
- undone.
-
•
- tighten.
v.
• loosen (verb)- dis enthralling,
- dis-enthralls,
- un-buckling,
- un-locks,
- dis-connecting,
- un hitched,
- un sticking,
- un-hook,
- worked loose,
- dis connect,
- dis-engages,
- un laces,
- un hooking,
- lets out,
- became unfastened,
- un-tying,
- un screwed,
- un chain,
- un lashes,
- un-fixing,
- un hitching,
- un-chain,
- un barring,
- dis-joins,
- un sticks,
- dis charging,
- un screws,
- de tach,
- un-pins,
- un-stuck,
- un pin,
- un-lock,
- un-loose,
- un-leashed,
- un-hitches,
- un loose,
- un lashed,
- un strap,
- un-pinning,
- de livers,
- letted out,
- un-fixed,
- unstraps,
- un-lashed,
- un loosed,
- disenthralls,
- dis-engaging,
- un bolts,
- un hook,
- un locks,
- wrought free,
- dis-enthrall,
- de livered,
- un chained,
- un chains,
- disenthralling,
- un stick,
- un-buckle,
- dis-joined,
- dis join,
- un screw,
- un-clasps,
- un hitch,
- un-leashing,
- un-bolt,
- un-snap,
- dis enthrall,
- un hitches,
- un fixes,
- un buttons,
- dis-enthralled,
- un-latches,
- un fixing,
- un-bolting,
- dis connects,
- un fixed,
- un-buckled,
- de-taches,
- un fasten,
- un-snapped,
- un lacing,
- un does,
- un fastening,
- un lace,
- un-bars,
- un-looses,
- un bars,
- working free,
- un loosing,
- dis-connects,
- un latch,
- un-hooking,
- un snapping,
- de taches,
- un straps,
- un-hooks,
- un button,
- un clasping,
- un snaps,
- dis-joining,
- dis charge,
- un latches,
- un buttoning,
- un pins,
- un-latching,
- dis joins,
- dis charges,
- un snap,
- un-hitched,
- becomes unfastened,
- unpins,
- un buckle,
- de-tach,
- un bolt,
- un-bar,
- un-did,
- un buckles,
- dis enthralls,
- un lock,
- un tying,
- un-lashing,
- dis-charging,
- un-snapping,
- un clasp,
- un-loosing,
- un-chaining,
- un latching,
- dis-enthralling,
- dis engage,
- un-lashes,
- un-strapped,
- wrought loose,
- un lashing,
- un-sticks,
- un-fixes,
- un-screwed,
- works loose,
- un-doing,
- dis charged,
- un leashes,
- un-stick,
- un buckling,
- un-laced,
- un-sticking,
- un strapped,
- dis-join,
- un-barring,
- dis-charges,
- un-buttons,
- un leash,
- un hooks,
- de liver,
- dis connecting,
- un-clasp,
- de-liver,
- un-strap,
- un-lacing,
- dis joined,
- un bolting,
- unfixt,
- un fix,
- un-laces,
- dis engages,
- works free,
- dis-charge,
- un did,
- un stuck,
- un leashed,
- un pinning,
- un-buttoning,
- un fixt,
- un laced,
- un-leash,
- letted go,
- dis engaging,
- working loose,
- un-straps,
- de livering,
- un-lash,
- un-button,
- un-screwing,
- de-livered,
- un-strapping,
- un-locking,
- dis enthralled,
- un-snaps,
- un doing,
- un-screws,
- becoming unfastened,
- un clasps,
- un-barred,
- un bar,
- un-chains,
- un-bolts,
- un-lace,
- un chaining,
- un-leashes,
- un-latch,
- dis-engage,
- un buckled,
- un-fix,
- de-livers,
- un barred,
- un-clasping,
- unsnaps,
- unsticks,
- un-hitching,
- un-screw,
- worked free,
- un fastens,
- unlashes,
- un-loosed,
- de-livering,
- un leashing,
- un-fixt,
- un looses,
- un-pin,
- un-chained,
- un screwing,
- un lash,
- un-buckles,
- un-does,
- un locking,
- dis joining,
- dis-connect,
- un-hitch,
- dis-charged,
- un-fasten,
- un snapped,
- un strapping.
- eases off,
- slows down,
- loses speed,
- un-tightened,
- re lax,
- re duces,
- eased off,
- un tightened,
- re-duce,
- un-tightens,
- re duce,
- un tightens,
- re-duces,
- un tighten,
- slowing down,
- un-tighten,
- lost speed,
- un-tightening,
- un tightening,
- re-lax,
- losing speed.
- de creasing,
- de creases,
- slacked off,
- de creased,
- slacks off,
- lied down job,
- de-creases,
- lied down on job,
- re lease,
- de crease,
- re-lease,
- lie down job,
- de-creased,
- de-creasing,
- re leases,
- lying down on job,
- lies down job,
- de-crease,
- lay down on job,
- re-leases,
- lay down job,
- laying back,
- lies down on job,
- lays back,
- lying down job.
Other synonyms:
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- neglectful.
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- loosely.
- unfixed,
- unchain,
- unhooks,
- unlash,
- unbolting,
- unlatches,
- unlacing,
- unfixing,
- unpinning,
- lets go,
- unpin,
- unbolts,
- unlock,
- unhook,
- unstrapped,
- unsnapping,
- unchained,
- Unfix,
- unstrapping,
- unsnap,
- unlace,
- disenthralled,
- work loose,
- unsticking,
- unstrap,
- let out,
- unbar,
- unscrewed,
- Unstick,
- unlashing,
- unscrewing,
- unlaces,
- letting out,
- letting go,
- unhooking,
- unlashed,
- unbolt,
- Disenthrall,
- unbarred,
- Unlatching,
- become unfastened,
- unchains,
- unbarring,
- work free,
- unlaced,
- unsnapped,
- unfixes,
- unscrew,
- unbars,
- unscrews,
- Unlatch.
How to use "Lax" in context?
Lax means relaxed or casual. This adjective is usually used to describe people or things who are not overly serious or tense. Lax behavior can be a sign of ignorance or carelessness. For example, "I was feeling a bit lax after my party last night" or "It was nice to relax after a long day of work.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
latitudinarian, loose, slack.
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Adjective
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
relaxing.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Other Related
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Adjective
indulgent, lenient, neglectful, negligent, permissive, relaxed, remiss, weak.
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Adjective
Homophones for Lax:
- Leo X, lxxiii, lhasa, lycia, lie awake, lxxxiii, loge, loess, Liliaceae, lackey, lousy, loos, lilac, lake keuka, leggy, lx, leo xiii, lewisia, lockjaw, Lake Cayuga, lawless, lallygag, Louis Ix, lasix, lisu, lichee, leakey, lough, lxxi, lychee, lockage, lox, lascaux, laic, Lusaka, Lego, llullaillaco, losses, leechee, lake, lush, look away, Louis Iii, liliaceous, leakage, laos, lag, lock, lao-zi, liaise, lease, lucky, luge, luggage, lash, loki, Lugh, leash, luce, lees, legs, lassie, lek, luck, loquacious, logo, likewise, lakh, Louis Agassiz, leaky, loose, locus, laicise, liza, low-key, lxxxi, lewis, Louis Xiii, luxe, leach, liege, locke, lugosi, loxia, legacy, lxx, lose, league, lazy, lxiii, lacks, leg, lxxx, lachesis, lac, lucas, loligo, log z's, Louis Ii, laicize, Louis X, lechwe, leek, loach, lyssa, logos, lochia, loasa, lexis, lace, luscious, leak, lycee, log, laze, Louis I, lack, lock away, liliales, lassa, lessee, luke, lasso, lass, lac's, leuciscus, luik, loch, lug, loggia, less, lichi, Louis XI, Leo Esaki, loasaceae, Lech, lacy, loco, laws, leech, lossy, lxi, lollygag, louche, lachaise, loloish, lucy, lxii, leacock, like, lygus, lysis, lxxxii, look, leo ix, lazio, lxxii, Louis Xii, lick, laugh, leigh, louis, lac wax, lilylike, laius, lycosa, logy, laugh away, louse, logic, lagos, loss, lux.
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