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1. (phonetics) pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in 'bet')
    
2. Lacking in firmness or tension; not taut
   "a lax rope"
    
3. Lacking in rigour or strictness
   "such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes";
   - slack
    
4. Emptying easily or excessively
   "lax bowels";
   - loose

Sounds like: lawn, l, lax, lacks

Derived forms: laxer, laxest

See also: drooping, droopy, floppy, limp, loose, loose-jointed, negligent, regular, sagging, slack, tensionless, unconstipated, wilted

Antonym: tense

Encyclopedia: Lax, Peter