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lax: emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels"; lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline"; not taut or rigid; not stretched or held tight; "a lax rope"; pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet')

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frowsy collapse: negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt; "filled the door with her frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly appearance"

forgiving collapse: inclined or able to forgive and show mercy; "a kindly forgiving nature"; "a forgiving embrace to the naughty child"

delaying collapse

shiftlessness collapse: a failure to be active as a consequence of lack of initiative or ambition

whorish collapse

admissive collapse: characterized by or allowing admission; "an Elizabethan tragedy admissive of comic scenes"

improvidence collapse: a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources

neglectful collapse

out of control collapse

clement collapse: (used of persons or behavior) inclined to show mercy; "a more clement judge reduced the sentence"; (of weather or climate) physically mild; "clement weather"

uninhibited collapse: not inhibited or restrained; "uninhibited exuberance"

unwatchful collapse

off guard collapse

nonrestrictive collapse: not limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase; "the nonrestrictive clause in `I always buy his books, which have influenced me greatly,' refers to his books generally and adds an additional fact about them"

unmuzzled collapse

nonaggressive collapse

forbearing collapse: showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment; "seemly and forbearing...yet strong enough to resist aggression"; "was longanimous in the face of suffering"

unprofessional collapse: not characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession; "described in unprofessional language so that high school students could understand it"; "was censured for unprofessional conduct"; "unprofessional repairs"

unreined collapse

flaccid collapse: drooping without elasticity; wanting in stiffness; "a flaccid penis"; lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; "flaccid muscles"; "took his lax hand in hers"; "gave a limp handshake"; "a limp gesture as if waving away all desire to know" G.K.Chesterton; "a slack grip"

procrastinative collapse

shiftless collapse: lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative; lazy; "a shiftless student"; "studied in a shiftless way"

dangling collapse

scamping collapse

uncurbed collapse

unenterprising collapse: lacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome

humane collapse: showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement; marked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering

nonspecific collapse: not caused by a specific agent; used also of staining in making microscope slides; "nonspecific enteritis"

unfactual collapse

overindulgent collapse: excessively indulgent

dissolute collapse

floppy collapse: hanging limply; "a spaniel with floppy ears"

blobby collapse

loitering collapse

stochastic collapse: being or having a random variable; "a stochastic variable"; "stochastic processes"

behindhand collapse: behind schedule; "was behindhand with the rent"

compassionate collapse: showing or having compassion; "heard the soft and compassionate voices of women"; showing merciful compassion; "sparing the child's mother was a compassionate act"

dallying collapse

forgetful collapse: failing to keep in mind; "forgetful of her responsibilities"; "oblivious old age"

dilatory collapse: wasting time; inclined to waste time and lag behind

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