slack
noun
1 slack
Dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve.
Dutch: slak
2 slack
3 slack
A stretch of water without current or movement:
— Suddenly they were in a slack and the water was motionless.
synonym: slack water.
4 slack
A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot.
synonyms: mire, morass, quag, quagmire.
Dutch: moeras, aanslibbing, slib, slik
5 slack
The quality of being loose (not taut):
— He hadn't counted on the slackness of the rope.
synonym: slackness.
6 slack
A cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely.
verb
1 slack
Avoid responsibilities and work, be idle.
Roget 388a:
go out,
die out,
burn out;
fizzle.
extinguish;
damp,
slack,
quench,
smother;
put out,
stamp out;
douse,
snuff,
snuff out,
blow out.
fireproof,
flameproof.
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2 slack
Be inattentive to, or neglect.
3 slack
4 slack
Make less active or fast:
— He slackened his pace as he got tired.
synonyms: relax, slack up, slacken.
5 slack
6 slack
Make less active or intense.
synonyms: abate, slake.
7 slack
Become less in amount or intensity.
synonyms: abate, die away, let up, slack off.
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8 slack
Cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water:
— Slack lime.
synonym: slake.
adjective
1 slack
Not tense or taut:
— Slack and wrinkled skin.
— Slack sails.
— A slack rope.
— A slack grip.
synonym: loose.
Roget 640:
insufficient,
inadequate;
too little
etc.
32;
not enough
etc.
639;
unequal to;
incompetent
etc.
(impotent)
158;
weighed in the balance and found wanting;"
perfunctory
etc.
(neglect)
460;
deficient
etc.
(incomplete)
53;
wanting,
etc.
v.;
imperfect
etc.
651;
ill-furnished,
ill-provided,
ill-stored,
ill-off.
slack,
at a low ebb;
empty,
vacant,
bare;
short of,
out of,
destitute of,
devoid of,
bereft of
etc.
789;
denuded of;
dry,
drained.
unprovided,
unsupplied†,
unfurnished;
unreplenished,
unfed†;
unstored†,
untreasured†;
empty-handed.
meager,
poor,
thin,
scrimp,
sparing,
spare,
stinted;
starved,
starving;
halfstarved,
famine-stricken,
famished;
jejune.
scant
etc.
(small)
32;
scarce;
not to be had,
not to be had for love or money,
not to be had at any price;
scurvy;
stingy
etc.
819;
at the end of one's tether;
without resources
etc.
632;
in want
etc.
(poor)
804;
in debt
etc.
806.
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Roget 683:
inactive;
motionless
etc.
265;
unoccupied
etc.
(doing nothing)
681;
unbusied†.
indolent,
lazy,
slothful,
idle,
lusk†,
remiss,
slack,
inert,
torpid,
sluggish,
otiose,
languid,
supine,
heavy,
dull,
leaden,
lumpish†;
exanimate†,
soulless;
listless;
drony†,
dronish†;
lazy as Ludlam's dog.
dilatory,
laggard;
lagging
etc.
v.;
slow
etc.
275;
rusty,
flagging;
lackadaisical,
maudlin,
fiddle-faddle;
pottering
etc.
v.;
shilly-shally
etc.
(irresolute)
605.
sleeping,
etc.
v.;
asleep;
fast asleep,
dead asleep,
sound asleep;
in a sound sleep;
sound as a top,
dormant,
comatose;
in the arms of Morpheus,
in the lap of Morpheus.
sleepy,
sleepful†;
dozy†,
drowsy,
somnolent,
torpescent†,
lethargic,
lethargical†;
somnifacient†;
statuvolent†,
statuvolic†;
heavy,
heavy with sleep;
napping;
somnific†,
somniferous;
soporous†,
soporific,
soporiferous†;
hypnotic;
balmy,
dreamy;
unawakened,
unawakened.
sedative
etc.
174.
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Roget 603:
unwilling;
not in the vein,
loth,
loath,
shy of,
disinclined,
indisposed,
averse,
reluctant,
not content;
adverse
etc.
(opposed)
708;
laggard,
backward,
remiss,
slack,
slow to;
indifferent
etc.
866;
scrupulous;
squeamish
etc.
(fastidious)
868;
repugnant
etc.
(dislike)
867;
restiff†,
restive;
demurring
etc.
v.;
unconsenting
etc.
(refusing)
764;
involuntary
etc.
601.
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Roget 275:
slow,
slack;
tardy;
dilatory
etc.
(inactive)
683;
gentle,
easy;
leisurely;
deliberate,
gradual;
insensible,
imperceptible;
glacial,
languid,
sluggish,
slow paced,
tardigrade†,
snail-like;
creeping
etc.
v.;
reptatorial†.
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Roget 172:
inert,
inactive,
passive;
torpid
etc.
683;
sluggish,
dull,
heavy,
flat,
slack,
tame,
slow,
blunt;
unreactive;
lifeless,
dead,
uninfluential†.
latent,
dormant,
smoldering,
unexerted†.
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Roget 160:
weak,
feeble,
debile†;
impotent
etc.
158;
relaxed,
unnerved,
etc.
v.;
sapless,
strengthless†,
powerless;
weakly,
unstrung,
flaccid,
adynamic†,
asthenic†;
nervous.
soft,
effeminate,
feminate†,
womanly.
frail,
fragile,
shattery†;
flimsy,
unsubstantial,
insubstantial,
gimcrack,
gingerbread;
rickety,
creaky,
creaking,
cranky;
craichy†;
drooping,
tottering
etc.
v..
broken,
lame,
withered,
shattered,
shaken,
crazy,
shaky;
palsied
etc.
158;
decrepit.
languid,
poor,
infirm;
faint,
faintish†;
sickly
etc.
(disease)
655;
dull,
slack,
evanid†,
spent,
short-winded,
effete;
weather-beaten;
decayed,
rotten,
worn,
seedy,
languishing,
wasted,
washy,
laid low,
pulled down,
the worse for wear.
unstrengthened
etc.
159†,
unsupported,
unaided,
unassisted;
aidless†,
defenseless
etc.
158;
cantilevered
(support)
215.
on its last legs;
weak as a child,
weak as a baby,
weak as a chicken,
weak as a cat,
weak as a rat;
weak as water,
weak as water gruel,
weak as gingerbread,
weak as milk and water;
colorless
etc.
429.
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Roget 47:
nonadhesive,
immiscible;
incoherent,
detached,
loose,
baggy,
slack,
lax,
relaxed,
flapping,
streaming;
disheveled;
segregated,
like grains of sand unconsolidated
etc.
231,
uncombined
etc.
48;
noncohesive†.
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Roget 738:
lax,
loose;
slack;
remiss
etc.
(careless)
460;
weak.
relaxed;
licensed;
reinless†,
unbridled;
anarchical;
unauthorized
etc.
(unwarranted)
925;
adespotic†.
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2 slack
Flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide.
3 slack
Lacking in rigor or strictness:
— Slack in maintaining discipline.
synonym: lax.
Polish: niedbały, nieporządny
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