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Word entry · 3 letters

lax

Best crossword clue

"Los Angeles airport"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /læks/Part of speech adjectiveSorted alxStarts with LEnds with X2 cluesCommon crossword word
1L2A3X

Definitions

  1. emptying easily or excessively

Word origin

Borrowed from Latin laxus (“wide, roomy, loose”).

Used in a sentence

  • The rules are fairly lax, but you have to know which ones you can bend.
  • Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions.
  • The rope fell lax.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Los Angeles airport3 letters
02Slack3 letters

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