different between inconsiderate vs lax

English

Etymology

From in- +? considerate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nk?n?s?d???t/, /???-/

Adjective

inconsiderate (comparative more inconsiderate, superlative most inconsiderate)

1. Not considerate of others.

   Synonyms: thoughtless, unthoughtful

   Antonyms: considerate, thoughtful

   • 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Boston: John P. Jewett, Volume 1, Chapter 15, p. 241,^[1]

     “It’s very inconsiderate of you, St. Clare,” said the lady, “to insist on my talking and looking at things. You know I’ve been lying all day with the sick-headache; and there’s been such a tumult made ever since you came, I’m half dead.”

   • 1922, Willa Cather, One of Ours, New York: Knopf, Book 1, Chapter 16, pp. 89-90,^[2]

     Bayliss and his father were talking together before dinner when Claude came in and was so inconsiderate as to put up a window, though he knew his brother hated a draft.

   • 1988, Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons, New York: Knopf, Part 1, Chapter 1, p. 13,^[3]

     “Ann Landers claims drop-in visits are inconsiderate,” he said.

2. (obsolete) Not giving enough consideration to one's actions, conclusions, etc.; acting too quickly without considering the risks and consequences.

   Synonyms: hasty, inattentive, rash, unreflecting

   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act II, Scene 1,^[4]

     And all the unsettled humours of the land,

     Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries, […]

     Have sold their fortunes at their native homes,

     Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,

     To make hazard of new fortunes here:

   • 1689, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, Book 1, Chapter 4, § 15, p. 32,^[5]

     […] the wise and considerate Men of the World, by a right and careful employment of their Thoughts, and Reason, attained true Notions in this, as well as other things; whilst the lazy and inconsiderate part of Men, making the far greater number, took up their Notions, by chance, from common Tradition, and vulgar Conceptions, without much beating their heads about them.

   • 1709, Aaron Hill, A Full and Just Account of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire, London: for the author, Chapter 7, p. 51,^[6]

     They Pray with Fervour and a fix’d, Attention, never turning like too many Inconsiderate Christians in our Noisy Churches, to behold what People pass behind them;

   • 1777, William Hutchinson, A Treatise on Practical Seamanship, Liverpool: for the author, p. 137,^[7]

     […] the most danger is from those inconsiderate and unexperienced pilots, who think a ship may be managed and conducted with equal ease and safety among shoals, as their own small vessels to which they have been accustomed,

   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, London: John Murray, Volume 1, Chapter 8, p. 141,^[8]

     […] Mr. Elton might not be of an imprudent, inconsiderate disposition as to money-matters; he might naturally be rather attentive than otherwise to them;

3. (obsolete) Resulting from insufficient consideration.

   Synonym: unconsidered

   • 1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierces Supererogation or A New Prayse of the Old Asse, London: John Wolfe, p. 175,^[9]

     I am ouer-ready to pardon young ouersights, and forgiue inconsiderate offences:

   • 1665, Robert Boyle, New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, London: John Crook, The Authors Preface Introductory,^[10]

     And having given us this inconsiderate Description of Cold, they [the Classick Authors] commonly take leave of the subject, as if it deserved no further handling, then could be afforded it in a few Lines,

   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, London, Volume 7, Letter 78, p. 267,^[11]

     […] to such a choice are many worthy women betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, raised and propagated, no doubt, by the author of all delusion, That a reformed Rake makes the best husband.

   • 1791, Charlotte Lennox, Hermione, London: William Lane, Volume 4, Letter 20, p. 65,^[12]

     Do me not the injustice to imagine I now require any particulars to convince me of your innocence, and of my own inconsiderate conclusions.

   • 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1859, Volume 2, Chapter 6, p. 83,^[13]

     Charlotte Stanhope did not in the least conceive that her new friend was a woman whom nothing could entrap into an inconsiderate marriage […]

4. (obsolete) Of too little value to be considered.

   Synonyms: inconsiderable, negligible, trifling

   • 1655, Edward Terry, A Voyage to East-India, London: J. Martin and J. Allestrye, pp. 15-16,^[14]

     […] when they had sold any one of their bullooks to us, for a little inconsiderate peece of brasse, if we did not presently knock him down, they would by the same call, make the poor creature break from us and run unto them again, and then there was no getting them out of their hands, but by giving them more brasse,

   • 1682, Aphra Behn, The Roundheads or, The Good Old Cause, London: D. Brown et al., Act III, Scene 1, p. 27,^[15]

     […] to wrest the Law to our convenience

     Is no small, inconsiderate Work?

Related terms

Translations

See also

• tactless
• thoughtless

Anagrams

• containerised, inter-diocesan

Italian

Adjective

inconsiderate

1. feminine plural of inconsiderato

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in.kon.si?.de?ra?.te/, [??kõ?s?i?d????ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.kon.si.de?ra.te/, [i?k?nsid??????t??]

Adjective

inc?ns?der?te

1. vocative masculine singular of inc?ns?der?tus

References

• inconsiderate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• inconsiderate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• inconsiderate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /læks/
• Rhymes: -æks
• Homophone: lacks

Alternative forms

• lacks (Killian)

Etymology 1

From Middle English lax, from Old English leax (“salmon”), from Proto-West Germanic *lahs (“salmon”), from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz (“salmon”), from Proto-Indo-European *la?s- (“salmon, trout”). Cognate with Middle Dutch lacks, lachs, lasche (“salmon”), Middle Low German las (“salmon”), German Lachs (“salmon”), Norwegian laks (“salmon”), Danish laks (“salmon”), Swedish lax (“salmon”), Icelandic lax (“salmon”), Lithuanian lašišà (“salmon”), Latvian lasis, Russian ??????? (losós?, “salmon”), Albanian leshterik (“eel-grass”). See also lox.

Noun

lax (plural laxes)

1. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, Scotland) A salmon.

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

lax (comparative laxer, superlative laxest)

1. Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
   • 1886, John Addington Symonds, Philip Sidney

     Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions.

2. Loose; not tight or taut.
3. Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
4. (mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor.
5. (archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.

Synonyms

• (lenient, not strict): permissive, lenient, relaxed
• (loose, not tight): loose, slack
• (lacking care): blameworthy, lash, negligent, remiss, reprehensible

Antonyms

• (lenient, not strict): strict
• (loose, not tight): taut, tight

Related terms

• laxity

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

lax (uncountable)

1. (slang) Lacrosse.
   • 2010, Kate Kingsley, Pretty on the Outside (page 79)

     “I'm not playing lax this term,” Mimah said.

Anagrams

• Axl

Dacian

Noun

lax

1. The edible wild purslane plant.

German

Etymology

From Latin laxus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laks/
• Homophone: Lachs

Adjective

lax (comparative laxer, superlative am laxesten)

1. lax
2. (morale or ethics) easy, loose

Declension

Further reading

• “lax” in Duden online

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse lax, from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [laxs], [laks]

Noun

lax m (genitive singular lax, nominative plural laxar)

1. salmon

Declension

Derived terms

• laxbleikur:
• laxbleikur litur m

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *laks, from the same source as laci? (“entice”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /laks/, [??äks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /laks/, [l?ks]

Noun

lax f (genitive lacis); third declension

1. deception, fraud

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• fraus

Descendants

• Mozarabic:

  Arabic: ???????? (?a?i)

  Hebrew: ????????? (?a?i)

References

• lax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Anagrams

• alx

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lex

Etymology

From Old English leax, from Proto-West Germanic *lahs, from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laks/, /l?ks/

Noun

lax (plural lax or laxes)

1. salmon

Descendants

• English: lax
• Scots: lax

References

• “lax, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-23.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lahsaz. Cognate with Old English leax, German Lachs, English lox, Old High German lahs, Yiddish ??????? (laks?).

Noun

lax m (genitive lax, plural laxar)

1. (zoology) salmon

Declension

Derived terms

• Laxárdalr

Descendants

References

• lax in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse lax, from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz. The 1000kr meaning comes from the color of the 1000kr bill which was the same color as a salmon.

Pronunciation

Noun

lax c

1. salmon
2. (slang) a bill with nominal value 1000 kronor or the corresponding amount of money

   Synonyms: lakan, långschal, skäring, papp

Declension

Derived terms

• laxrosa