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 and divides as lax-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.