English Dictionary

lax

/læks/

adj

Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict. / Loose; not tight or taut. / Lacking care; neglectful, negligent. / (mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor.

The teacher has a lax grading policy, allowing students to make mistakes without severe consequences.

意味（1）

Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.

The rules are fairly lax, but you have to know which ones you can bend.

意味（2）

Loose; not tight or taut.

The rope fell lax.

意味（3）

Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.

Prior to this match, Albion had only scored three league goals all season, but Wes Brown's lax marking allowed Morrison to head in their fourth from a Chris Brunt free-kick and then, a minute later, the initial squandering of possession and Michael Turner's lack of pace let Long run through to slot in another.

意味（4）

(mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor.

意味（5）

(archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.