'Slack' definitions:
Definition of 'slack'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not tense or taut; "the old man's skin hung loose and grey"; "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "a slack rope" [syn: loose, slack]
adjective
Flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide; "slack water"
adjective
Lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline" [syn: lax, slack]
noun
Dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
noun
A noticeable deterioration in performance or quality; "the team went into a slump"; "a gradual slack in output"; "a drop-off in attendance"; "a falloff in quality" [syn: slump, slack, drop-off, falloff, falling off]
noun
A stretch of water without current or movement; "suddenly they were in a slack and the water was motionless" [syn: slack, slack water]
noun
noun
The quality of being loose (not taut); "he hadn't counted on the slackness of the rope" [syn: slack, slackness]
noun
A cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely; "he took up the slack"
verb
Avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
verb
Be inattentive to, or neglect; "He slacks his attention"
verb
Release tension on; "slack the rope"
verb
Make less active or fast; "He slackened his pace as he got tired"; "Don't relax your efforts now" [syn: slack, slacken, slack up, relax]
verb
verb
verb
Become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated"; "The rain let up after a few hours" [syn: abate, let up, slack off, slack, die away]
verb
Cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water; "slack lime" [syn: slack, slake]
Definition of 'Slack'
From: GCIDE
- Slack \Slack\, Slacken \Slack"en\, v. t.
- 1. To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage. --Wycklif (Acts xxvii. 40) [1913 Webster]
- 2. To neglect; to be remiss in. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Slack not the pressage. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry. "Rancor for to slack." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- I should be grieved, young prince, to think my presence Unbent your thoughts, and slackened 'em to arms. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- In this business of growing rich, poor men should slack their pace. --South. [1913 Webster]
- With such delay Well plased, they slack their course. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease. [1913 Webster]
- To respite, or deceive, or slack thy pain Of this ill mansion. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Air-slacked lime, lime slacked by exposure to the air, in consequence of the absorption of carton dioxide and water, by which it is converted into carbonate of lime and hydrate of lime. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Slack'
From: GCIDE
- Slack \Slack\, n. [Cf. Slag.] Small coal; also, coal dust; culm. --Raymond. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Slack'
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- Slack \Slack\, n. [Icel. slakki a slope on a mountain edge.] A valley, or small, shallow dell. [Prov. Eng.] --Grose. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Slack'
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- Slack \Slack\, adv. Slackly; as, slack dried hops. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Slack'
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- Slack \Slack\, n. The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail. [1913 Webster] Slack
Definition of 'Slack'
From: GCIDE
- Slack \Slack\, a. [Compar. Slacker; superl. Slackest.] [OE. slak, AS. sleac; akin to OS. slak, OHG. slah, Prov. G. schlack, Icel. slakr, Sw. slak; cf. Skr. s[.r]j to let loose, to throw. Cf. Slake.] Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Weak; not holding fast; as, a slack hand. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service. [1913 Webster]
- The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness. --2 Pet. iii. 9. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Not violent, rapid, or pressing; slow; moderate; easy; as, business is slack. "With slack pace." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- C?sar . . . about sunset, hoisting sail with a slack southwest, at midnight was becalmed. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Slack in stays (Naut.), slow in going about, as a ship.
- Slack water, the time when the tide runs slowly, or the water is at rest; or the interval between the flux and reflux of the tide.
- Slack-water navigation, navigation in a stream the depth of which has been increased, and the current diminished, by a dam or dams. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Loose; relaxed; weak; remiss; backward; abated; diminished; inactive; slow; tardy; dull. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Slack'
From: GCIDE
- Slack \Slack\, Slacken \Slack"en\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slacked, Slackened; p. pr. & vb. n. Slacking, Slackening.] [See Slack, a.]
- 1. To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be remiss or backward; to be negligent. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To abate; to become less violent. [1913 Webster]
- Whence these raging fires Will slacken, if his breath stir not their flames. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To languish; to fail; to flag. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To end; to cease; to desist; to slake. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- That through your death your lineage should slack. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- They will not of that firste purpose slack. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Slack
Definition of 'slack'
From: GCIDE
- nonmoving \nonmoving\ adj. Not moving. Opposite of moving. [Narrower terms: {at rest, inactive, motionless, static, still}; {becalmed ; dead(prenominal), stagnant, standing(prenominal), still; {frozen(predicate), rooted(predicate), stock-still ; {inert ; {sitting ; {slack ; {stationary ; immobile, unmoving] Also See: immobile. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'slack'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandon,
- abate,
- abatement,
- abeyant,
- aloof,
- ambling,
- anemic,
- apathetic,
- asthenic,
- backward,
- bagging,
- baggy,
- bate,
- beat-up,
- bedraggled,
- behindhand,
- benumbed,
- blah,
- blase,
- bloodless,
- blow out,
- blowzy,
- bone-lazy,
- bones,
- cadging,
- careless,
- cataleptic,
- catatonic,
- cautious,
- chaff,
- chambering,
- chicken,
- chintzy,
- choke,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- coal dust,
- comatose,
- comb,
- coom,
- cowardly,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- culm,
- culpably negligent,
- cut,
- dallying,
- damp,
- dangling,
- dead,
- deadwood,
- debilitated,
- decline,
- decrease,
- delay,
- delaying,
- deliberate,
- delinquent,
- derelict,
- desensitized,
- detached,
- diffuse,
- dilapidated,
- dilatory,
- dillydallying,
- diminish,
- diminution,
- dishwater,
- disinterested,
- disjoin,
- disperse,
- disregardful,
- do-nothing,
- dodge,
- dog it,
- doless,
- dopey,
- dormant,
- douse,
- down,
- downturn,
- drabbletailed,
- draff,
- draggled,
- draggletailed,
- dregs,
- dronish,
- drony,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- duck,
- duck duty,
- dull,
- dust,
- dwindling,
- ease,
- ease off,
- ease up,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- effete,
- ergophobic,
- etiolated,
- extinguish,
- faineant,
- faint,
- faintish,
- faltering,
- feeble,
- filings,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- flagging,
- flapping,
- flat,
- floppy,
- foot-dragging,
- foul,
- free,
- frowzy,
- frumpish,
- frumpy,
- garbage,
- gash,
- gentle,
- get out of,
- give,
- goldbrick,
- gone,
- good-for-nothing,
- goof off,
- gradual,
- groggy,
- grubby,
- gutless,
- halting,
- hanging,
- heartless,
- heavy,
- hebetudinous,
- hobbling,
- hogwash,
- hopeless,
- husks,
- idle,
- imbecile,
- impotent,
- imprecise,
- in a stupor,
- in abeyance,
- in rags,
- in suspense,
- inactive,
- inactivity,
- inadvertent,
- inattentive,
- indifferent,
- indolent,
- inert,
- infirm,
- informal,
- insouciant,
- jump,
- lackadaisical,
- laggard,
- lagging,
- laissez-faire,
- languid,
- languorous,
- Laodicean,
- latent,
- lax,
- lazy,
- leaden,
- leave,
- leave loose ends,
- leave undone,
- leavings,
- lees,
- leisurely,
- lenient,
- lessening,
- let alone,
- let be,
- let dangle,
- let down,
- let go,
- let loose,
- let up,
- let up on,
- lethargic,
- lifeless,
- light,
- limber,
- limp,
- limping,
- lingering,
- listless,
- logy,
- loitering,
- loose,
- loose-moraled,
- loosen,
- looseness,
- lull,
- lumbering,
- lumpen,
- lustless,
- malinger,
- marrowless,
- messy,
- Micawberish,
- miss,
- mitigate,
- moderate,
- mussy,
- neglect,
- neglectful,
- neglecting,
- negligent,
- nerveless,
- nonaggressive,
- nonchalant,
- noninterfering,
- nonrestrictive,
- not pull fair,
- numb,
- numbed,
- of easy virtue,
- of loose morals,
- off,
- off-guard,
- offal,
- offscourings,
- Olympian,
- omit,
- orts,
- otiose,
- out,
- overindulgent,
- overly permissive,
- overpermissive,
- Paphian,
- parasitic,
- parings,
- pass over,
- pass up,
- passive,
- pause,
- permissive,
- phlegmatic,
- pithless,
- play,
- pluckless,
- poking,
- poky,
- pooped,
- potsherds,
- powerless,
- pretermit,
- procrastinate,
- procrastinating,
- procrastinative,
- procrastinatory,
- promiscuous,
- put out,
- quench,
- ragged,
- raggedy,
- rags,
- raspings,
- reduction,
- refuse,
- regardless,
- relax,
- relaxed,
- release,
- reluctant,
- remiss,
- remit,
- resigned,
- rickety,
- room,
- rubbery,
- ruinous,
- sagging,
- sapless,
- sauntering,
- scamping,
- scatter,
- scourings,
- scraggly,
- scrap iron,
- scraps,
- scrounging,
- scum,
- sedentary,
- seedy,
- shabby,
- shaky,
- shards,
- shavings,
- shiftless,
- shirk,
- shoddy,
- shuffling,
- sinewless,
- skimping,
- skip,
- skulk,
- slack off,
- slack up,
- slacken,
- slackening,
- slackness,
- slag,
- slake,
- slatternly,
- sleeping,
- slide out of,
- slighting,
- slip out of,
- slipshod,
- slop,
- sloppy,
- slops,
- slothful,
- slovenly,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow down,
- slow up,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- slow-up,
- sluggish,
- slumbering,
- slurring,
- sluttish,
- smoldering,
- smother,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- sneak out of,
- snuff,
- snuff out,
- soft,
- soldier,
- soporific,
- sordid,
- spineless,
- spiritless,
- sponging,
- spunkless,
- squalid,
- staggering,
- stagnant,
- stamp out,
- standing,
- static,
- stifle,
- stoic,
- streaming,
- strengthless,
- strolling,
- stubble,
- stupefied,
- supine,
- suspended,
- sweepings,
- swill,
- tacky,
- tame,
- tares,
- tattered,
- tentative,
- tire,
- toddling,
- torpid,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trifle,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unaroused,
- unbend,
- unbrace,
- uncaring,
- uncircumspect,
- unconcerned,
- unenterprising,
- unglue,
- unguarded,
- unhardened,
- unhurried,
- uninterested,
- unkempt,
- unlax,
- unleash,
- unneat,
- unnerved,
- unrestrained,
- unrigorous,
- unsightly,
- unsteady,
- unstick,
- unstrain,
- unstring,
- unstrung,
- untidy,
- untighten,
- unwary,
- unwatchful,
- unwind,
- waddling,
- wanton,
- wastage,
- waste,
- waste matter,
- wastepaper,
- wayward,
- weak,
- weaken,
- weakly,
- weeds,
- welsh,
- whorish,
- withdrawn,
- work-shy