slack

(slăk)

1. Moving slowly; sluggish: a slack pace.
2. Lacking in activity; not busy: a slack season for the travel business.
3. Not tense or taut; loose: a slack rope; slack muscles. See Synonyms at loose.
4. Lacking firmness; flaccid: a slack grip.
5. Lacking in diligence or due care or concern; negligent: a slack worker. See Synonyms at negligent.
6. Flowing or blowing with little speed: a slack current; slack winds.
7. Linguistics Pronounced with the muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed; lax.

1. To make slower or looser; slacken.
2. To be careless or remiss in doing: slack one's duty.
3. To slake (lime).

1. To be or become slack.
2. To evade work; shirk.

1. A loose part, as of a rope or sail.
2. A lack of tension; looseness.
3. A period of little activity; a lull.
4. a. A cessation of movement in a current of air or water.
   b. An area of still water.
5. Unused capacity: still some slack in the economy.
6. slacks Casual trousers that are not part of a suit.

Related Forms:

• slackˈly adverb

• slackˈness noun

(slăk)

(slăk)

1. A small dell or hollow.
2. A bog; a morass.