lax
/læks/ adjective C1- Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict. · The rules are fairly lax, but you have to know which ones you can bend.
- Loose; not tight or taut. · The rope fell lax.
- Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
- Describing an associative monoidal functor.
- (of a vowel) Produced with relatively little constriction of the vocal tract.
Comparative laxer · Superlative laxest
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The rough-and-tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on the top of a natural Bohemianism of disposition, has made me rather more lax than befits a medical man.
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