laxly

1. 1.

   in a permissively lenient manner

   “he felt incensed that Tarrant should have been treated so leniently given his crime”

   Synonymsleniently

Questions about laxly

What does laxly mean?

laxly means "in a permissively lenient manner".

How many syllables are in laxly?

laxly has 2 syllables: lax-ly. The stress falls on "lax".

What is another word for laxly?

Close synonyms include leniently. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is laxly a common word?

laxly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.