laxadjective
uk/læks/us/læks/without much care, attention, or control:
The subcommittee contends that the authorities were lax in investigating most of the cases.
not severe or strong enough:
He took a gun through baggage control to highlight the lax security.
specialized phonetics (of a speech sound) made without much force
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Not paying attention
- absent
- absent-minded
- absently
- abstracted
- anyhow
- be having a moment idiom
- blind
- drop/lower your guard idiom
- faraway
- glaze
- go back to sleep! idiom
- hasty
- not take a blind bit of notice idiom
- perfunctory
- remiss
- sideline
- slapdash
- slaphappy
- sloppy
- wander
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Weakness and vulnerability
laxity
noun [ U ] uk/ˈlæk.sə.ti/us/ˈlæk.sə.t̬i/also laxness
laxly
adverb uk/ˈlæks.li/us/ˈlæks.li/