laxest

Adjective

lax (comparative laxer, superlative laxest)

1. Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
   • The rules are fairly lax, but you have to know which ones you can bend.

   Synonyms:

   permissive, lenient, relaxed, clement, easygoing, forbearing, indulgent, loose-handed, permissible, remissful

   Antonyms:

   strict

2. Loose; not tight or taut.
   • The rope fell lax.

   Synonyms:

   loose, slack

   Antonyms:

   taut, tight

3. Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
   • The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible...1956 September, “Notes and News: The Barby Sidings Accident Report”, in Railway Magazine, page 638

   Synonyms:

   blameworthy, lash, negligent, remiss, reprehensible

4. Describing an associative monoidal functor.
5. (archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheic.
6. (of a vowel) Produced with relatively little constriction of the vocal tract.

   Synonyms:

   slack

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