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.