Lax a. [Compar. Laxer superl. Laxest.]
1. Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.
The flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy. --Ray.
2. Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal.
The discipline was lax. --Macaulay.
Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions. --J. A. Symonds.
The word =\“æternus” itself is sometimes of a lax signification.\= --Jortin.
3. Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
Syn: -- Loose; slack; vague; unconfined; unrestrained; dissolute; licentious.