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lax

Syllabification: (lax)

Pronunciation: /laks/

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Definition of lax

adjective

1not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful:lax security arrangements at the airport he’d been a bit lax about discipline in school lately

2(of the limbs or muscles) relaxed.
(of the bowels) loose.
Phonetics (of a speech sound, especially a vowel) pronounced with the vocal muscles relaxed. The opposite of tense¹.