1. excessively lenient or permissive; too relaxed in discipline or standards
Usage: formal

Examples

• The teacher’s overlax approach to homework deadlines confused the students.
• Parents who are overlax with screen time rules may struggle later with boundaries.
• The company’s overlax security policies led to several data breaches.
• Critics argued the judge was overlax in sentencing repeat offenders.
• An overlax attitude toward safety regulations can have serious consequences.
• The coach realized he had been overlax about attendance at practice.