All slack synonyms
slack
S s adj slack
- ill-fitting — (of a garment) not fitting well.
- chapfallen — dejected; downhearted; crestfallen
- fallow — pale-yellow; light-brown; dun.
- delinquent — Someone, usually a young person, who is delinquent repeatedly commits minor crimes.
- floppy — tending to flop.
- behindhand — If someone is behindhand, they have been delayed or have made less progress in their work than they or other people think they should.
- dull — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
- dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
verb slack
- goldbrick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- lollygag — lallygag.
- anaesthetizing — Present participle of anaesthetize.
- bum around — If you bum around, you go from place to place without any particular destination, either for enjoyment or because you have nothing else to do.
- inactivate — to make inactive: The bomb was inactivated.
- lay down — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- iced — of or made of ice: ice shavings; an ice sculpture.
- anaesthetised — anesthetize.
- monkey around — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
- loaf — a portion of bread or cake baked in a mass, usually oblong with a rounded top.
- lollygagging — lallygag.
- intermit — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
adjective slack
- off — so as to be no longer supported or attached: This button is about to come off.
- negligent — guilty of or characterized by neglect, as of duty: negligent officials.
- abate — If something bad or undesirable abates, it becomes much less strong or severe.
- discinct — (archaic) ungirded; loosely dressed.
noun slack
- margin — the space around the printed or written matter on a page.